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Just saw that our local Police Department got 2 huge new trucks with “Criminal Gang Unit” labeled on the sides.

by cringeyjokesman May 20, 2022, 5:56 am

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TIL Union General Philip Kearny devised the first unit insignia patches used in the U.S. Army in 1862, after mistakenly giving orders to soldiers not under his command. Afterward, his men wore a patch of red cloth to identify themselves as members of his unit. Other units quickly adopted the idea.

by whatilearned May 19, 2022, 6:27 pm

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TIL In 1930 Thomas Edison was at the controls for the first departure of a regular-service electric multiple unit train from the Hoboken Terminal to Montclair New Jersey!

by whatilearned May 14, 2022, 11:50 pm

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TIL of the 1st Alabama Cavalry Regiment, who were Sherman’s personal escort on his March to the Sea. They were a unit comprised entirely of Southerners who remained loyal to the Union.

by whatilearned May 13, 2022, 4:03 pm

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TIL, In October 2021 a ninja with a sword assailed a U.S. Army special operations unit in California : NPR

by whatilearned May 4, 2022, 3:23 pm

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TIL about the 1st Minnesota Infantry who lost 82% of their fighting strength on July 2nd 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg. This stands as the largest loss by any surviving US military unit in a single days engagement

by whatilearned April 27, 2022, 12:47 am

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TIL about the Common Cold Research Unit in the UK, which existed from 1946-1989, and whose only successfully-developed treatment was zinc lozenges (in 1987)

by whatilearned April 26, 2022, 1:48 pm

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TIL of “Unit 731”, a secret Japanese research facility disguised as a water treatment plant during WWII. Responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes ever committed, researchers captured by the USA were secretly given immunity in exchange for the data gathered from their human experiments.

by whatilearned April 22, 2022, 12:29 pm

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TIL of the Hubble-Barn unit of volume, arrived at by multiplying the size of an atomic nucleus by the length of the observable universe, equal to 13.1L.

by whatilearned April 16, 2022, 9:10 am

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TIL that a soldier’s Zippo lighter, found in the jungle in Vietnam, was returned to its rightful owner 50 years later ahead of Veteran’s Day 2021. The Zippo was engraved with the soldiers name, but the two men never met despite being part of the same unit.

by whatilearned April 14, 2022, 2:44 pm

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TIL that the ghost town of Kolmanskop, once a german, diamond-mining settlement in Namibia and one of the wealthiest cities in the world, had a hospital with the first X-Ray unit in the southern hemisphere

by whatilearned April 10, 2022, 2:38 pm

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TIL about the “Ghost Army”, a unit in World War II which used inflatable tanks, recordings of moving vehicles, scripted radio transactions, dummy planes to fool the Axis soldiers throughout the Allied invasion of Europe. They had more than 24 operations in their stint.

by whatilearned March 31, 2022, 12:33 pm

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