› added 1 year ago

309

Today I Learned Maya Rudolph of SNL is in a Prince cover band called Princess

Read more first-avenue.com

via reddit.com

Lkmbd Til October 5th to October 14th, 1582 never existed
E1mjw TIL that in WW2, US used Native Americans for message encryption. They were called "code talkers" as they simply talked in their native language for transmitting the messages. This allowed fast communication over open channels as enemy was unable to break this code. Was crucial in winning the war.
Bgn4k TIL every year in Mexico on September 15, the President would stand on the balcony, ring the bell, and shout based on Grito de Dolores (Cry of Dolores).
8daa TIL that the Central Intelligence Agency has a memorial wall at headquarters for employees who are killed while working for the US spy agency. Each year the CIA adds stars for deaths; some with names, some without. There are 125 stars as of 2017, eight more than in 2016 and 46 more than in 2002.
VPBG TIL that Exercise Tiger, a US rehearsal for the D-Day landings in 1944, claimed the lives of at least 749 US soldiers, after a live-fire artillery salvo accidentally hit troops landing on the beaches, and subsequent attacks by German E-boats sank two US ships, and damaged a further 2.