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TIL that there were only 21 days between the first atomic bomb test on July 16th and bombing Hiroshima on August 6th in the summer of 1945

by whatilearned May 8, 2023, 9:39 pm

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TIL That Alexander Keith Jr, the nephew of the famed Canadian brewer, was a US confederate spy, blew up a freighter with dynamite for insurance fraud, was blamed for missing ocean liners, and had his severed head on display until it was destroyed by German bombing

by whatilearned April 25, 2023, 4:23 am

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TIL about airship spy baskets. Used by Germans during WW1, an airship hidden above clouds would lower a basket with a lookout below the clouds to help navigate or find bombing targets.

by whatilearned March 22, 2023, 2:15 am

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TIL about the Amiriyah shelter bombing an aerial bombing attack that killed between 400-1,500 civilians by the U.S. Air Force

by whatilearned March 21, 2023, 9:44 pm

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[OC] The Zaza Chronicles of Yodieland: How Running Out of Weed Caused the Hiroshima Bombing

by CopyPastaArchive March 6, 2023, 7:49 pm

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Joe Buck: “Hello everyone and welcome to FOX’s coverage of an American bombing run on Hiroshima.”

by CopyPastaArchive February 22, 2023, 12:54 am

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TIL: In WW2 school children were used to create nearly 9,000 paper mache type balloons that were later used to complete bombing raids. The children were not told the purpose of their paper mache projects.

by whatilearned February 21, 2023, 4:50 am

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TIL after the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima there were ‘ant-walking alligator people’, faceless and eyeless, they were horrifically burned by the blast with their skins said to have been left blackened, cracked and scaly like an alligator.

by whatilearned December 18, 2022, 11:11 pm

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TIL about Willem Arondeus, a gay painter and artist. When the Nazis invaded the Netherlands he joined the dutch resistance. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Nazi German effort to identify Dutch Jews. He was caught and executed soon after his arrest.

by whatilearned November 24, 2022, 10:37 am

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TIL the falling out between Rudolf and Adi Dassler which led to the creation of Adidas and Puma, took place during a 1943 Allied bombing attack when Adi said “here are the bloody bastards again” referring to the Allied war planes, but Rudolf was convinced Adi meant him and his family

by whatilearned November 10, 2022, 7:53 pm

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TIL In WW 1 a German Zeppelin returning from a bombing raid on Britain, got blown of course an crash landed in Norway

by whatilearned October 22, 2022, 1:06 pm

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TIL that if you post about the 1985 MOVE bombing in Philadelphia, moderators will label your submission as too political and lock the comments

by whatilearned October 10, 2022, 4:05 pm

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