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J1ro8 TIL that it can take as little as 3.5% of a population participating in peaceful protest to make policy changes.
AMdg TIL that Spanish Flu didn’t come from Spain or hit it especially hard. Spain didn’t have the wartime censors other countries had, so Spanish media could report freely on the pandemic. This made it look like the situation in Spain was especially severe - resulting in the nickname “Spanish flu”.
6E0VY TIL a german man hacked thousands of IoT devices and operated a massive botnet in the last 8 years for the sole purpurse of downloading Anime
VBWxm TIL A cog is not a gear, but a single tooth on a gear. This makes the phrase "a cog in a machine" that much more demeaning.
OXya TIL that the Nazi salute looked almost identical to what was, at the time, the salute to the American flag. The USA changed the salute in 1942 after the Nazis adopted it.