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🔍 Oddities & Forgotten Stories
The Chocolate-Eating Tank That Survived Four Direct Hits
The Sherman tank nicknamed "Wot the Hell" — used by the British 9th Royal Tank Regiment during the North African campaign — had a particularly unusual piece of battlefield salvage: a piece of dark chocolate that had some...
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The Holocaust Survivor Who Built the World's First Computer
Stanislaw Ulam was a Polish-Jewish mathematician who survived the Holocaust and emigrated to the United States, where he worked at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project. He is the co-inventor of the Monte Carlo method (wit...