Post * pYAWQ — Curious Curator

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TIL that during WW2, for over a year, the British and the Germans had independently discovered how to jam each others' radar. But they decided not to use it, for fear of giving the tactic away to the other side.

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nejkW TIL one of the most brutal prisons in the US was Angola, Louisiana, which was run like a plantation. In the 1930s, hardened prisoners broke down upon learning of their sentence there. At one point, 10% of Angola prisoners were stabbed.

b1d0 TIL; There are still several locations in the US that ban the sale/consumption of alcohol. All dating back to the Prohibition.

VBL8p TIL The first computer virus, called 'Brain' took the world by storm in 1986. It was created by 2 brothers in Pakistan to protect their business from being stolen

wpB7 TIL Robin Williams attended Juilliard but dropped out his Junior year because his teacher, a renowned actor/producer, told him that there was nothing that he could learn from Juilliard that he didn’t already know.

78M8P TIL although the US Coast Guard is the second smallest US military service branch in terms of membership, the service by itself is the world's 12th largest naval force.