› added 2 years ago

77

TIL Iranian general Fathollah Minbashian was fired by Shah Pahlavi for being too resistant to foreign interests. After the Shah was overthrown, he offered to serve the new Islamic Republic, but they refused and ironically demanded that he report for the crime of collaborating with foreign powers.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

69Q77 TIL - That avocado seeds are so large because they depended on extinct megafauna to eat and disperse them.
9wMBB TIL the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC displayed a working "Little Boy" Atom Bomb that lacked only uranium until 1986. Then the Department of Energy took the bomb from the museum to remove its inner components, so it could not be stolen and detonated with fissile material.
RG61 TIL of the Battle for Castle Itter where defected Wehrmacht soldiers requested the help of American soldiers to help defend the castle from the Waffen-SS, who planned to execute the French VIP’s inside. It is the only known battle in World War II where the German and American armies fought together.
Egbeo TIL in 2004, during an interview with Stephen Hawking, a camera operator accidentally pulled one of the plugs causing an alarm and Hawking to slump forward. They thought this act had killed him only to find him laughing at his own jokes, The alarm was from his computer losing power
jaXn TIL that people grill watermelon and call them “watermelon steaks”. It resembles the texture of a seared steak and cookbooks sometimes recommends it as a meat substitute.