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TIL about the ghost army of WWII. Special troops used to deceive German command about the size, location, and plans using impersonation, prop equipment, and radio misinformation.

by whatilearned May 29, 2023, 7:19 am

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TIL about Georges Ruggiu. A Belgian civil servant, who at 35 moved to Rwanda, become a radio presenter for the ruling party (despite not speaking the native language) and demonised the Tutsis, which ended in their genocide.

by whatilearned May 27, 2023, 6:38 pm

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TIL there was a radio tower so powerful people around it could hear the broadcast in their pots, pans, and mattresses

by whatilearned May 22, 2023, 6:19 pm

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Pokémon Heartgold & SoulSilver (Nintendo DS) – Team Rocket Radio Takeover Dialogue Copypasta

by CopyPastaArchive May 20, 2023, 5:07 pm

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TIL “The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet” is a song known as “Like the Wind” recorded from a radio broadcast in West Germany in the early 1980s. Despite extensive searching, the band behind the song remains completely unidentified.

by whatilearned May 19, 2023, 3:10 am

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TIL Graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor, Antony Hewish, built a radio telescope to observe quasars in 1967. Their discovery won the 1974 Nobel Prize – for Hewish. 50 years later, Burnell was awarded $3 Million in the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

by whatilearned May 16, 2023, 8:55 pm

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Redditors who work for radio stations, why do you guys play the same 20 songs repeatedly?

by QuestionGuy May 16, 2023, 7:37 pm

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TIL from 1976 to 1989 an unknown taping noise was audible worldwide on commercial and civilian communications (tv broadcast, commercial aviation, SW radio). The source was the Duga radar “The Russian Woodpecker” a huge over-the-horizon radar used by the Soviets as a missile detection system.

by whatilearned May 13, 2023, 11:12 pm

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What artist makes you turn off the radio when they come on?

by QuestionGuy May 4, 2023, 11:36 pm

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Would you vote for a law that bans honking in radio music? Why or Why not?

by QuestionGuy April 29, 2023, 1:26 am

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A long haul trucking dispatcher gets a call over the radio “breaker breaker I just hit a pig at 120mph…over”

by cringeyjokesman April 4, 2023, 11:51 pm

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TIL in 1996, a 21-year-old man burst into a New Zealand radio station, took the manager hostage and demanded that Kermit the Frog’s rendition of Rainbow Connection be played.

by whatilearned March 30, 2023, 11:01 am

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