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Submitted by bethebumblebee t3_z701cc
TIL about death flights. Captives would be loaded into a plane, stripped, and pushed out over the ocean. These account for 1500-2000 of the 20k-30k estimated to have been disappeared by the Argentine military between 1976 and 1983 in the Argentine Dirty War.
historyhit.comSubmitted by dhthoff t3_yl1v1g
TIL while orbiting the moon aboard Apollo 11, Mission Control detected a problem with the environmental control system and told astronaut Michael Collins to implement Environmental Control System Malfunction Procedure 17. Instead he just flicked the switch off and on. It fixed the problem.
aerotechnews.comSubmitted by sonofabutch t3_yruw3b
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Submitted by siva-pc t3_yzals6
TIL about the Kent State Massacre, where the National Guard opened fire on unarmed students at Kent State University. Students were staging a peace rally (though not all of those killed were involved in the rally). Soldiers fired 67 rounds in 13 seconds.
britannica.comSubmitted by Casper771 t3_z52k8e
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Submitted by chaoswoman21 t3_z88e7m
TIL that somewhere between 3% and 21% of the population have a genetic variation in an olfactory receptor gene (OR6A2) that makes cilantro taste very unpleasant. Those with the variant describe the taste of cilantro as "a combination of soap and vomit" or similar to the odor emitted by stinkbugs.
en.wikipedia.orgSubmitted by Lagavulin16_neat t3_zatfik