Major_Lennox
Major_Lennox t1_iy2ndkx wrote
Reply to TIL More than 80 percent of the ocean has never been mapped, explored, or even seen by humans and as a result, we know more about the surface of Mars than Earth by [deleted]
What's the estimate for how much the world's navies have explored/mapped?
Major_Lennox t1_ixm2ntg wrote
Reply to comment by GrandmaPoses in TIL about Willem Arondeus, a gay painter and artist. When the Nazis invaded the Netherlands he joined the dutch resistance. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Nazi German effort to identify Dutch Jews. He was caught and executed soon after his arrest. by Random_German_Name
Happy to help.
Major_Lennox t1_ixm0y3c wrote
Reply to comment by GrandmaPoses in TIL about Willem Arondeus, a gay painter and artist. When the Nazis invaded the Netherlands he joined the dutch resistance. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Nazi German effort to identify Dutch Jews. He was caught and executed soon after his arrest. by Random_German_Name
"he was executed soon after he was caught"
There - does it make sense to you now?
Major_Lennox t1_iuvzuiq wrote
Reply to comment by Banea-Vaedr in TIL that King Alfred the Great evaded the Vikings by hiding in a swamp. He then caught them off guard and smashed the Viking army. by NotThenNotNowNever
> [The Britons] inhabit wild and waterless mountains and desolate and swampy plains, and possess neither walls, cities, nor tilled fields, but live on their flocks, wild game, and certain fruits; for they do not touch the fish which are there found in immense and inexhaustible quantities. They dwell in tents, naked and unshod, possess their women in common, and in common rear all the offspring. Their form of rule is democratic for the most part, and they are very fond of plundering; consequently they choose their boldest men as rulers.
> They can endure hunger and cold and any kind of hardship; for they plunge into the swamps and exist there for many days with only their heads above water, and in the forests they support themselves upon bark and roots, and for all emergencies they prepare a certain kind of food, the eating of a small portion of which, the size of a bean, prevents them from feeling either hunger or thirst. *
Major_Lennox t1_iu7r3h4 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL Jewish persons could not hold public office in Maryland until 1826 by synonyco
I don't think that's right:
> Marcy Frost, an employment attorney at Moss & Barnett, says it all depends on the word "private".
> "If you are truly a private club, and not open to the public, the answer is generally, yes, you're allowed to discriminate," said Frost.
> Why?
> "On the theory we have a Constitutional right of freedom of association," she said.*
Major_Lennox t1_iu6mxp7 wrote
Reply to comment by benefit_of_mrkite in TIL that Richard Feynman, one of the greatest theoretical physicists ever, was rejected admission to Columbia University because of his Jewish ancestry and instead went to MIT. by icbm67
When was this one posted before?
Major_Lennox t1_ir8q6t5 wrote
Reply to comment by Dominarion in TIL about Operation Bernhard. During WWII, Germany attempted to bring about the collapse of the British economy by forging ≈£130 million in British bank notes. The notes are considered among the most perfect counterfeits ever produced, and are very difficult to differentiate from legitimate notes. by rkadeYT
The original plan was to print 30 billion pounds worth of notes.
Major_Lennox t1_iquky0u wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL Britan was the first country to use Agent Orange during the Malayan Emergency in 1952 which the US viewed as justification to use it in Vietnam by shogunsft
Yeah it does - the section entitled "Comparisons with Vietnam"
> Both Britain in Malaya and America in Vietnam used Agent Orange. Britain pioneered the use of Agent Orange as a weapon of war during the Malayan Emergency. This fact was used by the United States as a justification to use Agent Orange in Vietnam.
Major_Lennox t1_j26yxjn wrote
Reply to comment by SpiritedSoul in TIL that footage from the video game Arma 3, a military sandbox game, has been mistaken for actual combat footage and has been used in news reports a number of times due to the realistic nature of the game. by No_Comparison2778
A couple of years ago, a solider in the UK was charged with disobeying orders for teamkilling in a VBS training exercise.
> “We were supposed to imagine we were travelling in armoured vehicles through a really hostile built-up area. One of the lads just lost his rag and ‘opened fire’ as it were, killing the soldier next to him.
> “He then drove down the street deliberately smashing into cars. It's safe to say the officers in our battalion did not find it as funny as we did.”