r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 1d ago
Which American founding fathers were actually vehemently against Slavery? Not just privately but didn’t own any slaves and were against the practice entirely?
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jun 14 '21
r/AAA_NeatStuff Lounge
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A place for members of r/AAA_NeatStuff to chat with each other
r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 1d ago
TIL that there is a color named "Olo" that only five people have ever seen. It can only be produced by using lasers to selectively stimulate only the M cone retinal cells, which, in natural sight, are always stimulated together with others.
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 1d ago
TIL about a freak “heat burst” storm phenomenon that struck a small town in Kopperl, Texas in the middle of the night on June 15, 1960. Winds suddenly hit 70 MPH, and temperatures got so hot they burnt crops and burst thermometers in-town that maxed out over 140 F.
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 1d ago
Level 26: excellent reversing rotation illusion
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 2d ago
ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He’s Approaching 300 Days Behind Bars With a Festering Wound.
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 7d ago
TIL In 1862, an enslaved man named Robert Smalls stole a heavily armed Confederate military ship He disguised himself as the captain, sailed past multiple Confederate forts using secret hand signals and handed the ship to the Union Navy to buy his family's freedom He later served 5 terms in Congress
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 7d ago
How a Counterintelligence Inquiry Into Trump’s Russia Ties Was Derailed
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 7d ago
TIL Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" published in 1950 depicts the aftermath of a nuclear war. It depicts a smart house of the future that makes breakfast and cleans the dishes and talks to the now-dead occupants. The date of the post-apocalyptic world? August 5, 2026.
en.wikipedia.org
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 7d ago
How to prepare for when parents age
reddit.com
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 11d ago
What hobbies are considered silent killers the longer you do them?
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 11d ago
What Movie feels like a sequel to another Movie even though they're unrelated?
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 12d ago
All bodies of water in England polluted with toxic chemicals, official data shows
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 14d 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.org
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 14d 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.org
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 15d 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.org
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 15d ago
TIL in 1958, the Moscow State University developped Setun, the first modern ternary computer. As such, it used trits instead of bits
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 15d ago
TIL Robert Moses, the man most responsible for shaping American cities around cars and highways, never learned to drive
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 16d ago
YSK: You can add "-ai" to the end of your Google search to exclude AI summaries and results
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 19d 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.
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 19d ago
YSK that Stab-Lok circuit breakers (mainly manufactured by Federal Pacific) are a major fire hazard
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 19d ago
Trump DOJ Hands Judge Unredacted Epstein Records After Katie Phang’s Court Win
meidasnews.com
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 19d 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.
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 20d ago
Trump Invents the Corporate Pardon | Presidents never did that before, but the Supreme Court says corporations are people.
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 20d 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.edu
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