Post * MJwA — Curious Curator

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TIL 988 million positions can be achieved in the first four moves from both sides in chess.

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mK0O TIL the Nazis’ post war plans for the USSR consisted of killing over 100 million “racially inferior Slavs” by extermination through labor, starvation, and deportation while enslaving the remaining survivors as illiterate serfs on German plantations.

v1rnr TIL about Rolando Sanchez, a former general surgeon from Tampa, FL. who in 1995, amputated the wrong leg of a diabetic patient (claiming it to be a clerical error) and, just 5 months later, unnecessarily removed the big toe of another patient during a debridement procedure on her right foot.

7rmxp TIL The Battle of Leyte Gulf was, by some criteria, the largest naval battle in history, with over 200,000 naval personnel involved. The Japanese lost 1 fleet carrier, 3 light carriers, 3 battleships, 6 heavy cruisers, 4 light cruisers, 11 destroyers, 300 aircraft, & 12,500 killed

Qpyk TIL Rush vocalist/bassist Geddy Lee’s parents were Holocaust survivors. When Rush’s album 2112 was released, British magazine NME called the band Nazis due to the album’s lyrical allusions to Ayn Rand and Objectivism, deeply offending Geddy Lee.

gMjgW TIL in 1954, when the Swanson TV dinner was first sold in retail outlets, it was controversial: men wrote to the company complaining that they preferred their wives cook from scratch like their mothers did as opposed to the "just heat and serve" meal.