Post * xkj0 — Curious Curator

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TIL In 1945, Japanese radar operators detected a small number of incoming US planes (which carried the nuclear bombs to be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki), but decided not to intercept them as the small number of planes were not seen as a threat.

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P6L TIL that Cornell University researchers have solved the origin of the Tungusta explosion in 1908. Sorry, Aliens guy.

XEQmP TIL that Estonian, despite being an finno-urgric language that’s closely related to Finnish, borrowed about 1/3 of it vocabulary from Germanic language (german and low Saxon)

N7E6N TIL that workers in Cuban cigar factories in the early 1900s employed 'lectores' to read to them while they worked. The reading materials were often literary or political, ranging from socialists newspapers to Shakespearean plays - sometimes leading to clashes with anti-communist factory owners.

w456 TIL Mr. Moseby from The Suite Life of Zack and Cody was sentenced to 5 years in prison for manslaughter after he killed a 21 year old girl in a drunk driving accident in 1991. He spent one year in prison before being released on probation with community service.

yJQw TIL a company called Beyond Meat makes protein-rich and sustainable meat alternatives made entirely from plants. Bill Gates writes that he was “fooled by how real it tasted” and called it “a taste of the future of food”.