4thofeleven
4thofeleven t1_j1co1ct wrote
Reply to comment by yellowsubmarinr in TIL that Henry Gunther was the last soldier to die in World War I. The war ended at 11 AM and Gunther was killed at 10:59 AM while charging a German machine gun by IAmDavidGurney
You generally don't want to declare a cease-fire immediately - you need to allow time for everyone to get the message, otherwise you get situations where one unit doesn't receive the new orders in time, continues attacking, the other side thinks you're intentionally violating the cease-fire, and the whole thing collapses.
4thofeleven t1_iy36yrp wrote
Reply to TIL after her death, Mercy Brown's heart and liver were burned and the ashes mixed into a tonic that was given to her sick brother to drink. Her father believed that she was a vampire and that the tonic would cure the brother of tuberculosis. It didn't; he died two months later. by NightVisible3767
That's some Skyrim alchemy-style nonsense right there.
4thofeleven t1_ixcpz5j wrote
Reply to comment by JaydedMermaid3D in TIL a physicist once tried to falsify creation of two new elements by silask93
There's some evidence that at least some of his work on those elements was also initially falsified - it seems like he was faking data to get the results he expected so he could claim the discovery ahead of any other team, and then conducting the experiments properly later.
It's just that the first few times, his hypothesis about the qualities of the new elements proved correct enough that his 'results' could be duplicated and so nobody looked closely at his work, while with the later elements, he was way off and nobody else could get results even close to what he was claiming.
4thofeleven t1_irv2x59 wrote
Reply to comment by carbinePRO in TIL about John Rabe. A German representative in China who used his Nazi credentials and influence to save 200,000 Chinese citizens from being slaughtered by Japanese forces in 1937 during the Nanjing Massacre. by LethalPoopstain
Sugihara, it should be noted, was also critical of Japanese policies - he'd previously resigned his position in Manchuria in protest over how the Japanese were treating local Chinese.
4thofeleven t1_j1p1vea wrote
Reply to TIL that in 2003, the chief officer of the German-owned cargo ship RMS Mülheim got into difficulties while on watch. His trousers caught in his chair mechanism and while trying to free himself he tripped and knocked himself unconscious. The ship grounded on rocks while he was out and later broke up by YalsonKSA
One of those situations where it may actually hurt your reputation less if you just say "Yeah, I was drunk."