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Eunice Hunton Carter: The Woman Who Reeled in Lucky Luciano: The trailblazing Black lawyer uncovered the evidence that tied the Mafia boss to a prostitution operation and led to his conviction

by HistoryBuff February 6, 2023, 6:34 pm

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TIL of Operation Babylift, a US-led evacuation of children from Vietnam during the Vietnam War for adoption in America, Canada, Australia, and Europe. The very first flight crashed shortly after takeoff and killed 78 children.

by whatilearned February 2, 2023, 12:43 am

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TIL that the crew of the USS Triton were not told what the goal of Operation Sandblast was (a submerged circumnavigation of the world) until the submarine had already left port and was underway

by whatilearned January 31, 2023, 9:07 pm

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TIL that the Greek frigate Psara, former flagship of Operation Atalanta carries the taxidermic hearts of Greek Revolution Admirals Kanaris and Miaoulis whenever in battle

by whatilearned January 28, 2023, 3:38 pm

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TIL that in the Vietnam war the US conducted a psychological warfare operation which used loudspeakers to play eerie sounds and altered voices to represent the spirits of dead N. Vietnamese soldiers so as to undermine their morale. Operation Wandering Soul

by whatilearned January 24, 2023, 11:07 am

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TIL that in 1963 the Australian Army conducted “Operation Blowdown”, in which 50 tons of TNT was detonated to simulate the effects of a nuclear weapon on a tropical rainforest.

by whatilearned January 22, 2023, 12:30 pm

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TIL that the British once tried to destroy an entire island after WW2 because they didn’t want it to be used as a fleet base for the Germans. This was done in “Operation Big Bang” where they detonated 6700 tonnes of explosives, which is considered one of the largest single explosive detonation.

by whatilearned January 21, 2023, 10:34 pm

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TIL that India successfully tested its first nuclear bomb on May 18, 1974 under a code name “Operation Smiling Buddha.”

by whatilearned January 15, 2023, 6:32 am

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Jurassic park operation genesis trailer

by CopyPastaArchive January 7, 2023, 11:52 pm

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TIL that although the British Double Cross operation captured or turned all German agents operating in Britain during WWII, the German Abwehr was equally successful in Holland with an operation called Englandspiel, capturing all British SOE agents sent to aid Dutch Resistance.

by whatilearned January 6, 2023, 3:52 pm

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TIL a secret United States intelligence program (named Operation PaperClip) in which more than 1,600 NAZI German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959.

by whatilearned December 29, 2022, 10:43 pm

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TIL the Chaos Computer Club in France was a fake hacker organisation setup by the government in 1989. They fully committed to the operation, even publishing seventy-three issues of their members’ magazine.

by whatilearned December 29, 2022, 11:06 am

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