campaign Archives - reddit

Switch to the light mode that's kinder on your eyes at day time.

Switch to the dark mode that's kinder on your eyes at night time.

2 Comments

TIL despite being silent about Joseph McCarthy in public, President Dwight D. Eisenhower started a secret campaign that ultimately ended the Senator’s career.

by whatilearned August 16, 2022, 1:17 am

11 Points
Upvote Downvote
5 Comments

TIL that the law firm Morgan & Morgan fired half of its marketing department in 2021 because they criticized the firm’s “Size Matters” campaign as an inappropriate joke.

by whatilearned August 9, 2022, 11:10 pm

12 Points
Upvote Downvote
TIL one of the most mad Roman emperors wasn’t actually called ‘Caligula’. It was a nickname given to him as a kid by his father’s soldiers, while being on campaign with them in Germania. The name means ‘little boots’ in Latin and is a reference to the child-sized military gear he would wear

by whatilearned June 23, 2022, 3:15 pm

12 Points
Upvote Downvote
8 Comments

TIL in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt gave an eighty-four minute campaign speech with an undressed bullet wound in his chest.

by whatilearned June 22, 2022, 3:13 am

12 Points
Upvote Downvote
3 Comments

TIL that in 2007 a marketing campaign for Aqua Teen Hunger Force led to a bomb scare and 2 million dollars in damages

by whatilearned June 21, 2022, 6:05 pm

12 Points
Upvote Downvote
TIL With flight director Gene Kranz, it took a $5 million campaign to restore the original Mission Control room at NASA Johnson Space Center in 2019, with thousands of backers from 25 countries. Flight control consoles were restored and wall displays were reactivated with Apollo-era projections

by whatilearned June 13, 2022, 4:50 am

12 Points
Upvote Downvote
5 Comments

TIL In the first half of the 20th century, state sponsored campaigns dynamited roosting areas, taking large numbers of American Crows. A campaign in Oklahoma from 1934 to 1945 dynamited 3.8 million birds.

by whatilearned June 7, 2022, 10:01 pm

12 Points
Upvote Downvote
This one dates back to 1711 Pruth River campaign, by a captive Ottoman soldier, translated from Ottoman Turkish:

by CopyPastaArchive June 7, 2022, 9:39 am

12 Points
Upvote Downvote
1 Comment

TIL: During the Gallipoli campaign a famed war correspondent tasked Keith Murdoch with smuggling a letter back to Britain criticizing the campaign. Military press censors stopped Murdoch and confiscated the letter, Murdoch simply copied the letter from memory and added his name.

by whatilearned June 1, 2022, 1:52 pm

12 Points
Upvote Downvote
2 Comments

TIL the suffragette bombing and arson campaign of 1912-1914 caused at least five deaths

by whatilearned May 24, 2022, 2:41 pm

12 Points
Upvote Downvote
4 Comments

TIL The Suffragettes Pursued a Surprisingly Violent Campaign of Bombing and Arson from 1912 to 1914

by whatilearned May 24, 2022, 2:48 am

12 Points
Upvote Downvote
13 Comments

TIL Make America Great Again was first used as a slogan by Ronald Reagan for his 1980 Presidential Campaign

by whatilearned May 15, 2022, 10:19 pm

12 Points
Upvote Downvote

Congratulations. You've reached the end of the internet.