› added 1 month ago

8

TIL in his books "the art of war", N.Machiavelli proposed that armies should use music, not only as marching songs but in the same manner its used in "great banquets and other festivities" as a cue for performing military maneuvers. He also proposed bringing back standardised uniforms and insignias

Read more wikisource.org

via reddit.com

8e5D8 TIL about the Siege of Leningrad during WW2 - it went on for 872 days and led to ~1.5 million deaths from a prewar population of 3.4 million
1oNV TIL there are 33,000+ PhD graduates receiving public aid in the United States.
vmyD TIL because of the height of the Burj Khalifa, you can watch the sunset at the base then grab a quick elevator to the top and watch it all over again.
9Z0X TIL George Washington vowed never to set foot on English soil — so when London’s National Gallery erected a statue of the president in 1921, the state of Virginia sent a ton of earth for him to stand on.
G667 TIL when American troops were asking ‘American’ trivial questions to flush out German infiltrators in WWII, that American brigadier general Bruce Clarke was held at gunpoint for five hours after he said the Chicago Cubs were in the American League