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brazzy42 t1_ixu3osn wrote
Reply to comment by letrestoriginality in TIL that despite it being illegal to smoke on any part of an airplane, airlines are legally required to provide ashtrays as a way to dispose of lit cigarettes. by Your-username-must-b
Part of a long, long series originally started over on /r/CatastrophicFailure
brazzy42 t1_ixtx1p6 wrote
Reply to comment by letrestoriginality in TIL that despite it being illegal to smoke on any part of an airplane, airlines are legally required to provide ashtrays as a way to dispose of lit cigarettes. by Your-username-must-b
In fact, back when smoking was allowed, minor fires started by cigarettes (often in trash cans) were so common that anything looking like that was not considered a very serious concern.
This led to the disaster of Air Canada flight 797, where an electrical fire near a toilet was mistaken for such a case, leading to a delayed response and a late emergency landing, the cabin already filled with smoke, so that 23 people died even though the plane had landed safely.
brazzy42 t1_ixtwadb wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL In The 1930s, Baseball rivaled Soccer In England, attracting 10,000 spectators per game. In 1938, at the inaugural Baseball World Cup, Great Britain defeated the USA 4 games to 1. The outbreak of WWII interrupted the sports ascendancy, and it never recovered its prewar popularity. by contextual_somebody
> Soccer means Association Football after all.
Yep, played by the rules of the Football Association, and not by the rules favored by some schools that didn't join said association... Like Rugby College.
brazzy42 t1_iu3f2c7 wrote
Reply to comment by MoonHunterDancer in TIL The European 30 Years' War 1618 - 1648 began with Czech nobles throwing two Habsburg governors out of Prague castle window onto a huge dungheap. The corresponding carnage - fought over the issue of religious freedom following the Protestant Reformation - left millions dead. by Royal_Bumblebee_
No. You don't need a peace treaty or any kind of official document to end a war, just like you don't need a declaration of war to start one.
There really isn't such a thing as countries being "officially at war without knowing it".
brazzy42 t1_itpqiyd wrote
Reply to comment by sonofabutch in TIL One of the only pieces of Hitler's dream reconstruction of Berlin as Germania is an enormous concrete cylinder in the Tiergarten neighborhood. It's called the Schwerbelastungskörper which translates as "heavy load-bearing body." It was to test the load-bearing capability of the ground. by muttmutt2112
Triumphbögenplätze müssen verdichtet sein!
brazzy42 t1_j8rfkb9 wrote
Reply to TIL that back in 2013, Xerox had scanners that would randomly change numbers after scanning a document. by COMPUTER1313
Note: the bug had existed for 8 years, and there's a good chance that there are still scanners out there being used which have the bug and were never updated.