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- The Interesting List
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- October 7, 2019
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- shipping, war, history
“ War once closed the Suez Canal for eight years. Unfortunately, there were about a dozen ships transiting the canal when this happened. ”
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- The Interesting List
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- January 3, 2021
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- war, weapons, shipping
“ There’s a sunken WWII ship in shallow water off the coast of England. It contains over 6,000 tons of explosives. If it detonated, a tsunami would travel down the Thames. ”
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- The Interesting List
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- March 4, 2021
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- military, war, history
“ In 1945, there was an hours-long Japanese ‘attack’ on Los Angeles that was very likely the result of wild imaginations and nervous trigger fingers. ”
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- The Interesting List
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- July 30, 2021
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- sports, war, buildings
“ The relics of the 1984 Olympics in Sarajevo still stand. Some of them were used during combat and saw the horrors of war crimes. ”
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- The Interesting List
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- July 17, 2020
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- war, history, agriculture
“ In the 1860s, several nations went to war over bat poop. ”
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- The Interesting List
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- June 3, 2020
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- government, history, war
“ Due to several specific circumstances, up until this week, there was still a single person receiving a pension from the Civil War. ”
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- The Interesting List
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- September 12, 2021
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- wikipedia, history, war
“ A woman was troubled by the subtle tone of Wikipedia articles about certain aspects of Nazi history. She embarked on an epic and controversial editing spree. ”
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- The Interesting List
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- Annotated Link
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- May 19, 2019
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- military, tech, war
“ The U.S. military uses Internet Relay Chat a lot, perhaps most importantly to run tactical operations in real-time. IRC is a very old – but still quite popular – technology, dating to 1988. ”
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- The Interesting List
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- Annotated Link
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- July 23, 2020
- Tags
- war, tech, history
“ The first ‘ethical hacker’ might have been a Frenchman who sabotaged the Nazi punch card system for storing data on citizens, thus preventing them from querying for Jews. ”
