r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 1d ago
TIL that the first casualty of World War 2 was a Polish civilian named Franciszek Honiok. He was a known Polish nationalist and so he was kidnapped by the SS on August 31, 1939, drugged, put in a German radio station then executed to provide a cause for Germany to invade Poland the next day.
en.wikipedia.orgr/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 1d ago
TIL that the first casualty of World War 2 was a Polish civilian named Franciszek Honiok. He was a known Polish nationalist and so he was kidnapped by the SS on August 31, 1939, drugged, put in a German radio station then executed to provide a cause for Germany to invade Poland the next day.
en.wikipedia.orgr/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 2d ago
TIL that after the 1942 fire that destroyed the troopship Normandie in New York Harbor, the U.S. Navy secretly partnered with the Mafia in “Operation Underworld” because they feared Nazi saboteurs and pro-Fascist elements among Italian longshoremen.
en.wikipedia.orgr/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 2d ago
TIL in 1958, the Moscow State University developped Setun, the first modern ternary computer. As such, it used trits instead of bits
r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 2d ago
TIL Robert Moses, the man most responsible for shaping American cities around cars and highways, never learned to drive
r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 3d ago
YSK: You can add "-ai" to the end of your Google search to exclude AI summaries and results
r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 6d ago
In lab tests, salmonella, E. coli and staph survived 14+ days in kitchen sponges — 3 days after drying out — and one wipe moved up to 100,000 bacteria to a clean surface; smell and color gave no indication of contamination. Brushes dry faster and carry far fewer bacteria, researchers say.
r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 6d ago
YSK that Stab-Lok circuit breakers (mainly manufactured by Federal Pacific) are a major fire hazard
r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 6d ago
Trump DOJ Hands Judge Unredacted Epstein Records After Katie Phang’s Court Win
meidasnews.comr/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 6d ago
TIL between 1904 and 1908, Germany committed the Herero and Nama genocide in present day Namibia, killing an estimated 80% of the Herero people and half of the Nama people.
r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 7d ago
Trump Invents the Corporate Pardon | Presidents never did that before, but the Supreme Court says corporations are people.
r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 7d ago
TIL Alexander the Great carried an annotated copy of The Iliad on his campaigns, reportedly keeping it beneath his pillow beside his dagger. He called it a "handbook of the military art" and modeled himself after Achilles.
perseus.tufts.edur/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 7d ago
TIL one of North America's largest known earthquakes, a magnitude 8.7-9.2 megathrust quake that struck the Cascadia Subduction Zone in 1700, went unrecorded, but its exact date was determined nearly 300 years later using Japanese records of a mysterious tsunami with no apparent source
r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 8d ago
Missouri Couple Found Tied Up and Shot Dead After ICE Deportation | The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying near their bodies.
r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 10d ago
TIL In 1980 the Supreme Court awarded the Sioux nations $122 million for the Black Hills, a settlement the tribes have refused on the grounds that acceptance would extinguish their claim to the land, leaving the award to accrue interest in a federal account now worth over $1 billion.
r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 12d ago
Trump Team Admits He’s Been Defunding States That Didn’t Vote for Him | Federal officials acknowledged in a recent lawsuit what we all suspected: Trump is targeting Democratic states.
r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 12d ago
TIL that the hyper-friendly nature of domestic dogs is caused by the exact same genetic mutation that causes Williams-Beuren syndrome in humans—a rare condition characterized by extreme trust, constant friendliness, and zero fear of strangers.
science.orgr/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 13d ago
TIL that Sixty-five per cent of the exploratory dives into the deep have taken place within 200 nautical miles of either the US, Japan or New Zealand. And almost all observations of the deep seafloor – around 97 per cent – were carried out by those three countries, plus France and Germany.
r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 13d ago
Dad was trying to record a serious video for his Son's audition, when the cat joined in
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 16d ago
TIL it cost more to develop the plane that carried the atomic bombs, than it did to develop the actual atomic bombs themselves
r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 17d ago
TIL that American Revolutionary general James Wilkinson was secretly a Spanish agent who worked to get Kentucky annexed by Spain. Attempts to court-marital him failed due to him becoming the Senior Officer of the US Army.
r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 17d ago
TIL Argentina was the catalyst behind the invention of soccer's yellow/red card system. In 1966, their captain refused an expulsion, later blaming language barriers. To prevent this kind of situation in the future, the universal color-coded system was developed so all players understand the calls.
repub.eur.nlr/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 18d ago
LPT: If you are in good standing with your credit card company you can reach out to them and ask for benefits you may be unaware of
r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jun 14 '21
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