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TIL of dazzle camouflage on ships, which consisted of complex geometric shapes and patterns intended to disrupt the ship’s outline and thereby confuse the enemy on the trajectory of the ship

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OMn1 TIL that Mao launched the ‘Hundred Flowers Movement’ in order to receive constructive criticism on how to change China and the CCP. Shortly after, he changed course and launched a campaing persecuting those who criticised him.
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jOwN TIL the Moscow Water Dog is a now-extinct breed of dog that was developed in the Soviet Union after WWII. They were bred to be water rescue dogs, but since they preferred biting drowning people to saving them, the breed was allowed to go extinct.
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