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TIL there is an unclaimed Pokemon Go gym on the North Korean side of the Korean DMZ, a border zone filled with snipers, land mines, and armed guards.

by whatilearned June 23, 2022, 8:53 am

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TIL the Ottawa Convention is a 1997 treaty signed by 133 countries to ban antipersonnel land mines. The U.S. never signed. The U.S. placed thousands of mines in the DMZ between the Koreas during the Cold War to help deter an overwhelming ground invasion from the North.

by whatilearned June 22, 2022, 1:43 am

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TIL that 15 mines detonated at the Battle of Messines on 7th June 1917 created what is still one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in human history. The blast created a 12-metre deep crater and was reportedly heard as far away as Dublin.

by whatilearned June 7, 2022, 11:04 pm

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Elon Musk is probably sponsoring school shooters so that he can kidnap more broken children to work in his lithium mines.

by CopyPastaArchive March 15, 2022, 2:36 pm

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TIL of Magawa, an African giant pouched rat who helped clear landmines left over from the Cambodian civil war from over 225,000 square metres of land. He was capable of sniffing out the TNT in explosives, and could work much faster than humans since he was too light to detonate the mines.

by whatilearned February 5, 2022, 6:08 pm

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TIL: The Finnish Stopped Soviet Mines from Exploding by playing a Single Polka Song on Repeat

by whatilearned December 13, 2021, 6:17 pm

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copium mines

by CopyPastaArchive October 19, 2021, 2:12 pm

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TIL a man named Donald Dean Stenger ran a nationwide $20-million meth empire in the 80s, escaping police in a high-speed police chase into the desert, rigging a briefcase with a hidden automatic firearm, owning several gold mines in Mexico, and dying when a balloon of meth exploded inside him.

by whatilearned October 19, 2021, 12:40 am

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TIL “cataphiles” come from all over the world to illegally explore at least 180 miles of “catacombs” — abandoned mines — under Paris. Artists paint murals. Fire dancers perform. Nazi bunkers and French resistance hideouts sit side by side. Graffiti from the French Revolution marks the walls.

by whatilearned October 13, 2021, 2:31 pm

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TIL when the Liberia Mining Company abandoned the Bomi Hills of Liberia in the 1970s, it left behind many pit mines. Over time, one of the pits began to fill with water, likely fed by a spring somewhere down below. By the end of the 1990s, Bomi Blue Lake formed in the pit once used to extract iron.

by whatilearned October 9, 2021, 11:40 pm

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TIL several endangered species, especially red-crowned cranes and white-naped cranes, have found a strange refuge among the land mines, fortifications and total absence of people in Korea’s Demilitarized Zone.

by whatilearned October 9, 2021, 5:11 am

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TIL there are limestone mines beneath Paris that became an ossuary and final resting place for over six million people. During a cholera outbreak in the 1800’s over 170,000 people were hastily dumped in the catacombs and covered with quick lime to remove the flesh.

by whatilearned October 7, 2021, 7:05 am

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