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v1Zpx TIL Kurdish forces allegedly volunteered to join the Allied Forces during WWII, but the offer was declined
1aANW TIL JFK's Dad, Joseph Kennedy made millions through insider trading. Years later he became the first chairman of the SEC and promptly made insider trading illegal
LQXor Today I learned that in Central Europe there are hunger stones (hungerstein), in river beds stones were marked with an inscription, visible only when the flow was low enough to warn of a drought that would cause famine.
GYoYN TIL horror director Ari Aster ("Hereditary," "Midsommar") made his student thesis film about a boy who molests his own father. Aster desired to create a story about the "worst thing" he could get away with filming at school, a taboo "so unfathomable" that it wasn't technically a taboo to begin with.
VMmrp TIL that muon imaging could help save the Great Dome of Florence, and might solve the secret of how the heck Brunelleschi built it in the first place