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TIL The infamous sound German JU-87 dive bombers made while in a dive is due to a siren installed on the plane, and not just the sound of the plane diving on a bomb run.

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7rmrZ TIL The first known evidence of the use of cryptography (in some form) was found in an inscription carved around 1900 BC, in the main chamber of the tomb of the nobleman Khnumhotep II, in Egypt. The scribe used some unusual hieroglyphic symbols here and there in place of more ordinary ones.
GA4Y7 TIL that the threat from Algeria was the reason the U.S. Navy was founded. In 1794, the U.S. Congress passed the Naval Act, authorizing the construction of six frigates, including the USS George Washington. This decision was largely driven by the need to protect American merchant ships from Algiers.
ADdLB TIL about the Oka Crisis, when the Mohawk community of Kanesatake, joined by natives from other communities in Canada and the United States, rebelled against an attempt by the local Canadian government to build a golf course over sacred Mohawk land.
WkBlo Today I learned Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Had two different paths. MLK was about protesting and assimilating into white culture and Malcolm X was about Just being proud to be black. Both were assassinated. MLK by a white man, and Malcolm X by his own people.
78ra7 TIL about a Madagascan lemur called Aye-aye which has a structurally unique and long middle finger that it uses to pull out grubs and insects out of trees