Post * ANG9o — Curious Curator

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TIL the Soviets trained dogs as anti-tank bombers, but they attacked Russian tanks instead of German ones due to a training error. The Soviets used diesel tanks for training, while German tanks ran on gasoline. The dogs' keen sense of smell led them to familiar Soviet tanks instead of the Germans.

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5VwL8 TIL: The term "pathetic fallacy" (meaning the personification of nature) was not created as an insult. Coined in 1856, at the time "pathetic" meant "of emotion" and "fallacy" meant "falseness". The intended meaning was thus "emotional falseness", i.e emotions creating false perceptions.

ADVGx TIL that the world's highest mountain Mt. Everest is littered with frozen corpses because it's too dangerous and expensive to get them down. One such corpse named "Green Boots", has long been used as a landmark to help climbers travel up the mountain

M7kBV TIL that there's a city in Egypt called "6th Of October"

k0be TIL murderers in medieval Ireland were given to the deceased’s family as slaves if they failed to pay a hefty fine to buy their freedom. The family could then legally kill the murderer themselves.

pYRlZ TIL in 1959, Ottawa Int'l Airport was planning to open a new terminal. But during rehearsals for the Opening Ceremony, a US fighter jet flew so fast that it caused a sonic boom, which shattered many windows, tiles, and structural columns. The opening had to be delayed by a year to fix the damage.