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A Brief History of Oak Ridge City - The Secret City. Making the Atom Bomb! https://www.didweknow.com/2020/06/makin...
22/06/2020

A Brief History of Oak Ridge City - The Secret City. Making the Atom Bomb!
https://www.didweknow.com/2020/06/making-atom-bomb-brief-history-of-oak.html

Oak Ridge - The Secret Atomic City. The eastern part of Tennessee (a state in the US) once housed a mysterious city, behind high fences, where the Manhattan Project was secretly going on, far away from the prying eyes of the world. Even the name of the city, Oak Ridge, was chosen from amongst the co...

A sky for the , the Fastest Manned Airplane https://www.didweknow.com/2020/06/a-sky-for-blackbird-fastest-manned.h...
22/06/2020

A sky for the , the Fastest Manned Airplane
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Blackbird - The Fastest Manned Airplane. Lockheed SR-71 " Blackbird" was designed by the feisty Clarence Kelly Johnson, and this "long range, Mach 3+ strategic reconnaissance aircraft" can actually outfly a missile! No wonder, the US Air Force ran the whole project, when defense contractor, Lockheed...

Liar, liar: Understanding the lie detectorhttps://www.didweknow.com/2019/09/liar-liar-understanding-lie-detector.html ...
03/09/2019

Liar, liar: Understanding the lie detector
https://www.didweknow.com/2019/09/liar-liar-understanding-lie-detector.html

Discovery Inventions Science September 03, 2019 Remember the old nursery rhyme about Johnny's father going through all that trouble just to catch his sugar-stealing son red-handed? Well, he could have just given Johnny a polygraph test instead. Lie detectors, or polygraphs, detects and records the p...

When ancient camels roamed in North America!https://www.didweknow.com/2019/09/when-ancient-camels-roamed-in-north.html ...
03/09/2019

When ancient camels roamed in North America!
https://www.didweknow.com/2019/09/when-ancient-camels-roamed-in-north.html

September 03, 2019 Camels and sand dunes go together. Well, that's what we thought, but the recent discovery of fossils seem to suggest otherwise. The far north, Canada's High Arctic, was once inhabited by the ancestors of our modern camel 3.5 million years ago, as evident from new research! The fos...

The Waffle House Index: From serving waffles to managing disastershttps://www.didweknow.com/2019/09/the-waffle-house-ind...
03/09/2019

The Waffle House Index: From serving waffles to managing disasters
https://www.didweknow.com/2019/09/the-waffle-house-index-from-serving.html

September 03, 2019 There's this saying that not all heroes wear capes. Let me rephrase that- Not all heroes wear capes, but some sell waffles, and help people during disasters. Well, Waffle House Inc. and disaster management sounds a bit strange, because it is an American restaurant chain. So, what....

Diomede Islands, and the US-Russia love-hate storyhttps://www.didweknow.com/2019/09/diomede-islands-and-us-russia-love-h...
03/09/2019

Diomede Islands, and the US-Russia love-hate story
https://www.didweknow.com/2019/09/diomede-islands-and-us-russia-love-hate.html

Facts History Interesting Facts September 03, 2019 Apart from their love-hate relationship, US and Russia's international border is also something which might interest you. Just 3.8 km apart, right in the middle of Bering Strait, lies the Diomede islands. These pair of islands officially separate th...

When two submarines decided to face off: What was the only submarine battle about?https://www.didweknow.com/2019/09/when...
03/09/2019

When two submarines decided to face off: What was the only submarine battle about?https://www.didweknow.com/2019/09/when-two-submarines-decided-to-face-off.html

Interesting Facts September 03, 2019 The world is a weird place to live in. Judging by this, it is actually surprising that we only have one submarine versus submarine battle to tell and retell. So, what was it all about? Image credit The submarine U-864 of Kriegsmarine (navy of N**i Germany) left K...

When bullets and poison were no match for Rasputinhttps://www.didweknow.com/2019/08/when-bullets-and-poison-were-no-matc...
31/08/2019

When bullets and poison were no match for Rasputin
https://www.didweknow.com/2019/08/when-bullets-and-poison-were-no-match_31.html

Interesting Facts August 31, 2019 Grigori Yefimovichor Rasputin, as he preferred to call himself, was no stranger to controversies. He was a healer for Alexei, Tsar Nicholas ll and Alexandra's only son, and over time, became very close to the royal family. Well, close enough to irk many, as his popu...

The Shortest War in History: How to end a war in 45 minutes!https://www.didweknow.com/2019/04/the-shortest-war-in-histor...
08/04/2019

The Shortest War in History: How to end a war in 45 minutes!
https://www.didweknow.com/2019/04/the-shortest-war-in-history-how-to-end.html

Events History News April 08, 2019 Wars are supposed to be long and tedious affairs, but it was not the case when Zanzibar Sultanate decided to take on the British. Their military conflict, which took place on 27th August, 1896, was like a movie played in fast forward, and lasted somewhere between 3...

KFC follows 11 Herbs and spices on Twitter, and it's "so good"!https://www.didweknow.com/2019/04/kfc-follows-11-herbs-an...
08/04/2019

KFC follows 11 Herbs and spices on Twitter, and it's "so good"!
https://www.didweknow.com/2019/04/kfc-follows-11-herbs-and-spices-on.html

Food News April 08, 2019 Imagine a perfect twitter handle. Now imagine KFC's twitter account. Well, turns out Colonel Sanders' famous recipe of 11 herbs and spices can also make a dull, corporate social account spicy! It so happened that on October 19, 2017, Twitter user Mike Edgette spotted this bi...

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