Post * gMo4 — Curious Curator

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TIL that Bradley Manning who leaked classified material to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks was nominated for Nobel Peace Prize twice in 2011 and 2012.

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pndp TIL when the world’s largest diamond was discovered in South Africa, it was shipped to England on a steamboat under heavy security. But it was a diversion, and the real stone was sent in a plain box via post.

9QaX TIL The last surviving WWI Veteran was a woman.

W7XbX TIL that on warning of a likely missile launch against the USA, the Pentagon and Strategic Command war rooms, have one minute to brief the president, who then has roughly only six minutes to decide whether and how to respond.

4Xxm5 TIL that while the blueprints to the Saturn V rockets still exist, the manufacturing industries that built them do not, making building new ones prohibitively expensive.

wLgbY TIL that there's a farmer in South Africa who has bred ducks for many years. He uses the ducks instead of pesticides on his farm. Every morning he assembles over 1,000 ducks into a line to go and pluck the pests out of his vineyard.