› added 4 years ago

63

TIL Operation Marigold, a failed secret attempt by a Polish diplomat which would've ended Vietnam War much earlier had it succeeded

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

jNyp TIL neuroscientists have shown that the Arabic alphabet is objectively harder to read than any other writing system
opRE TIL that North Korea has more submarines than the United States.
86QG TIL CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”
x6yV7 TIL that a rocket engine startup company's plan for using mercury propellant to launch satellites ended up getting the UN global ban
yRKp TIL - After Edison died Nikola Tesla wrote a negative obituary in the NYT - made fun of his hygiene and work ethic