› added 1 year ago

44

TIL that, the astronomer Patrick Moore, whose fiancée was killed by a German bomb in 1943, said in 2012 that “We must take care. The Germans will try again, given another chance” and “the only good Kraut is a dead Kraut.”

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

d8ORE TIL Martin Luther King Sr was also a civil rights activist who lived until 1984
Y7Drv TIL some plants like kiwifruit, wild taro, pineapples have microscopic sharp crystalline needles called raphides.
W7Z5B TIL Mansfield Smith-Cumming, inspiration for James Bond's "M," was involved in discovering cum worked as an invisible ink during WW1. Agents adopted the motto "Every man his own stylo". However, the use of semen as invisible ink was ceased because of the smell it produced for the eventual receiver.
R7Yjw TIL the last postmaster general of USPS was Megan Brennan, the first woman to assume the position. She started out as a postal carrier and rose through the ranks working continuously until a brief hiatus when she was getting her MBA from MIT.
9Yox6 TIL kamikaze pilots weren't 100% volunteer. Pilots were asked to put their hand up in a big group if they didn't want to volunteer. Amid peer pressure, hardly anyone was able to say no to the mission.