Post * PYaQZ — Curious Curator

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TIL that the French military actually has the best military record of the last 800 years

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v18jx TIL of Congressman Lucas Miller who proposed an amendment renaming the United States of America to the United States of the Earth in 1893. He also proposed abolishing the Army and Navy.

Me0vA TIL when the Israeli military developed their battle rifle, the Galil, they included a bottle opener built into the bottom of the gun. Previous guns had been damaged by Israeli soldiers who kept using their guns to open bottled beverages with their guns.

QJEpL TIL serial killers act similarly to bees. Serial killers commit crime near their home, but far enough to prevent arousing suspicion. Similarly, bees collect pollen near their hive, but far enough from predators. Scientists found algorithms from studying bee behaviour to catch felons

mD6x TIL that the idea that people used to think that the world was flat is actually a modern misconception and “with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the Earth was flat”

mA4v TIL of Flying ace Erich Hartmann. Destroyed 352 enemy planes. Crashed 14 times due to mechanical or debris damage from planes he killed. Never once shot down.