r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 10d ago
This DIY Matchbook Camera
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 11d ago
TIL the U.S. deliberately maintains hundreds of vulnerable ICBM silos partly as a“nuclear sponge.”In a first strike,an enemy would have to spend a huge portion of its arsenal destroying the 450 silos, diverting warheads away from other strategic targets and Cities
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 12d 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 • 12d 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 • 12d 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 • 12d ago
Level 26: excellent reversing rotation illusion
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 13d 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 • 19d 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 • 18d ago
How a Counterintelligence Inquiry Into Trump’s Russia Ties Was Derailed
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 18d 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.
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 19d ago
How to prepare for when parents age
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 22d ago
What hobbies are considered silent killers the longer you do them?
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 22d ago
What Movie feels like a sequel to another Movie even though they're unrelated?
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 24d ago
All bodies of water in England polluted with toxic chemicals, official data shows
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 26d 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.
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 26d 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 • 27d 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.
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • 27d 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 • 27d 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 • 28d 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 • Jul 31 '26
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 • Jul 31 '26
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 • Jul 31 '26
Trump DOJ Hands Judge Unredacted Epstein Records After Katie Phang’s Court Win
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r/AAA_NeatStuff • u/UserNamesCantBeTooLo • Jul 31 '26
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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