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TIL the British made “decoy sneakers” for SOE agents in the pacific to disguise their footprints and make them seem like barefoot locals.

by whatilearned May 20, 2022, 6:40 pm

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TIL in 1978, a small Cessna 178 became lost over the Pacific Ocean after its navigation systems failed and was rescued by an Air New Zealand DC-10 performing an impromptu search for it.

by whatilearned May 12, 2022, 11:44 pm

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TIL that after the failed Paris Commune in 1871, many of its supporters were exiled to the French dependency New Caledonia in the Pacific. The majority of them were eventually granted amnesty by president Adolfe Thiers in 1879, and allowed to return to France.

by whatilearned May 10, 2022, 1:43 am

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TIL in effort to keep morale high for WWII troops fighting in the Pacific, the British built a floating brewery and dispatched it to the South Seas

by whatilearned May 5, 2022, 3:49 pm

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TIL that approximately 2000 large ships have sank in the “Graveyard of the Pacific” and that at least 700 people have drowned.

by whatilearned April 18, 2022, 12:48 am

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TIL the original Bisquick formula was inspired by a dining car chef on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Said chef mixed the dry ingredients for the RR’s biscuit recipe, stored it in the icebox, then added liquid ingredients when needed to have fresh biscuits ready at a moment’s notice.

by whatilearned April 5, 2022, 6:12 pm

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TIL France has detonated nearly 200 nuclear bombs in the South Pacific, the last of which was in 1996

by whatilearned April 2, 2022, 9:19 pm

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TIL that Mu is mythical lost sunken continent that was hypothesized to once have existed in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, in essence the Pacific’s version of Atlantis

by whatilearned March 29, 2022, 1:46 pm

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TIL To date, six nuclear weapons have been lost and never recovered. One fell in the Pacific Ocean and quickly sank in 16,000 feet of water and is believed to still be there today. Another one was dropped in Georgia by the aircraft carrying it and was never found.

by whatilearned March 19, 2022, 3:15 pm

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TIL in just a 24-hour period (March 4-5 1966), two fatal accidents occurred on flights from or to Tokyo Haneda Airport. The second plane, BOAC Flight 911, had in fact taxied past the wreckage of the first, Canadian Pacific Airlines Flight 402, immediately before taking off.

by whatilearned March 5, 2022, 4:46 pm

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TIL about the Czechoslovak Legions. During WW1, Russia recruited 60K Czech and Slovak troops to fight the Hapsburgs. After the Bolshevik Revolution, they took on all comers, plundered the Tsar’s gold, and battled their way across Eurasia to the Pacific. They then sailed back to their homelands.

by whatilearned January 24, 2022, 12:58 am

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TIL Some Ancient Pacific Islanders explored the seas using their testicles as a navigational tool.

by whatilearned January 10, 2022, 3:36 am

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