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rBJ1 TIL an abandoned Walmart was converted into America’s largest single-floor library (124,500 square feet)
ANpLB TIL there are people who can smell ants
pjop TIL - Before Radar Great Britain built huge concrete structures that acted as a ultra sensitive microphone to detect incoming enemy airplanes.
0rP5 TIL During storms at sea the waves would rock the boat so seasick passengers would head below deck to a lower point where the rocking was less noticeable. Passengers were thus forced under the deck by the weather… and the expression “under the weather” was born!
VB1Am TIL that in 1984, the Japanese Army Veterans Association, in an attempt to refute wartime atrocities, interviewed former WWII soldiers. Instead of denial, the soldiers freely admitted and described atrocities committed, resulting in the association publishing an apology the following year.