minus-squareBonus @lemm.eetoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that Fort Bragg isn't named after a Confederate general anymore. It's named after a private from WWII who's claim to fame is having the same last name as a Confederate general.linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 hour agoThanks to Hegseth renaming it back and coming up with that bullshit. In May 2022, the commission officially recommended that Fort Bragg be renamed to Fort Liberty On 10 February 2025, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issued a memorandum directing the U.S. Army to rename Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Bragg#Name_changes linkfedilink
minus-squareBonus @lemm.eetoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that the discoverer of radio pulsars - Jocelyn Bell Burnell - lost out on her Nobel Prize because her thesis supervisor took the creditlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·5 days agoCold-blooded. linkfedilink
minus-squareBonus @lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.world•Zoomers & Boomers are the samelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·6 days ago linkfedilink
minus-squareBonus @lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.ml•Zoomers & Boomers are the samelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-26 days agoSource: https://lemmy.ca/post/41402040 linkfedilink
minus-squareBonus @lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.world•Zoomers & Boomers are the samelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up57·6 days agoHello, COMPUTER!!! linkfedilink
minus-squareBonus @lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.world•But I don't want to put a title...linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 days agoGuacamole! linkfedilink
minus-squareBonus @lemm.eetoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that in the 1980s the USDA distributed government cheese to low income neighborhoodslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·19 days agoLet’s go get sushi and not pay. linkfedilink
minus-squareBonus @lemm.eetoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that in the 1980s the USDA distributed government cheese to low income neighborhoodslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-219 days agoFrom the Repo Man (in which this sort of shit was depicted) soundtrack: Circle Jerks - When The Shit Hits The Fan (acoustic) https://youtu.be/J04NXYkUd8c linkfedilink
minus-squareBonus @lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.world•Wh-what if we held hands and shared a post-war khrushchevka? Jk jk! Unless…? 😳linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agodeleted by creator linkfedilink
Thanks to Hegseth renaming it back and coming up with that bullshit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Bragg#Name_changes