Post * WdgL — Curious Curator

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TIL that every single spy that Hitler thought he had in Britain was a double agent under British control.

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vYMr TIL in 1994, the pilot of an Aeroflot Airbus A310 allowed his son to sit at the controls during a flight. The boy inadvertently turned off the autopilot controls, sending the plane into hillside and killing all 75 aboard.

4X17J TIL the United States trained, equipped, and fought alongside the Viet Minh and Ho Chi Minh during WWII.

R5BQ9 TIL that there are two kinds of freedom. A person alone in a desert has the perfect negative freedom to choose where to die. A person on a highway has the positive freedom to drive wherever they want, in large part because they don't have the negative freedom to drive on the wrong side of the road.

jNw6n TIL Around 50% of the protein you consume comes from the Haber-Bosch process. Without this process, we would've never been able to maintain our current population's food intake.

VM9dG TIL since India has more than 400 million vegetarians, every packaged food or toothpaste in India must have a mark to distinguish whether it is vegetarian or non-vegetarian. The vegetarian symbol is a green square with a green dot in the centre while the non vegetarian is the same in red.