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8/6/2019 Be Interesting! 11 Fascinating Conversation Topics http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/be-interesting-11-fascinating-conversation-topics 1/2 Be  Interesting! 11 Fascinating Conversation Topics  A good conversationalist has a robust portfolio of fascinating topics they can draw on to lead a mediocre chat into a memorable and fascinating discussion. Transhumanism Transhumanism is the technological, societal, ideological move to mental and physical human immortality. It’s coming a whole lot sooner than you think. Checkout the documentary film seriesTechnocalyps or Google technological singularity Obscure WWII Facts  The second world war is full of fascinating episodes that make for interesting conversation.  Fanta (the fun, fruity soda) was actually invented specifically for the Nazis, look it up. The United States actually employed the notorious American- Italian gangster Lucky Luciano twice during the war. First to guard the docks of new york city from a Nazi submarine attack

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    Be Interesting! 11 Fascinating

    Conversation TopicsA good conversationalist has a robust portfolio of fascinating topics they

    can draw on to lead a mediocre chat into a memorable and fascinating

    discussion.

    Transhumanism

    Transhumanism is the technological, societal, ideological

    move to mental and physical human immortality. Its coming

    a whole lot sooner than you think. Checkout the

    documentary film seriesTechnocalypsor

    Google technological singularity

    Obscure WWII Facts

    The second world war is full of fascinating episodes that

    make for interesting

    conversation.

    Fanta (the fun, fruity soda) was actually invented specifically for

    the Nazis, look it up.

    The United States actually employed the notorious American-

    Italian gangster Lucky Luciano twice during the war. First to

    guard the docks of new york city from a Nazi submarine attack

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    and then after he was deported to Sicily he paved the way for American forces to land.

    During the Pacific Campaign the US used Navajo American Indians as code talkers to prevent

    messages about tactical movements being intercepted. Their code was never broken during the war.

    Japanese holdouts were Japanese soldiers stationed on islands throughout the Pacific who refused

    to surrender, or did not know that Japan had surrendered. These soldiers remained isolated on these

    islands, often times by themselves, for several years, or decades. One famous case is Hiroo Onada,

    who finally surrendered in 1974, 29 years after Japan surrendered!

    Typically, people think of U-boats attacking ships in the Atlantic, around Greenland or closer toEurope, rather than off the coast of the United States. However, Operation Drumbeat involved 40 U-

    Boats attacking shipping very close to the coastline of various states. An even scarier fact is that

    German U-Boats even landed saboteurs on American soil! At Long Island, New York, and Ponte

    Vedra, Florida, 8 English-speaking Germans snuck into America (the 4 at Long Island were captured

    after several weeks).