TIL On average, Mercury is the closest planet to Earth — and to every other planet in the solar system (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL China now has a 3 child policy. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Maximum, that is....
TIL ants that farm aphids influence the aphids’ genes in a similar way that we do with cows. Aphid-farming ants prefer and select for red/green polymorphism. (www.nature.com)
From the article:...
TIL of GUERRILLA MARKETING and the GREAT MOONINITE PANIC of 2007 : or How a tiny LED sign turned a city upside down. (aussie.zone)
👉 Boston.com article...
TIL that in 2006, a woman named Edith Macefield turned down a reported offer of $1 million to sell her 108-year-old farmhouse to make way for a commercial development in the Ballard neighborhood (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that in 2006, a woman named Edith Macefield turned down a reported offer of $1 million to sell her 108-year-old farmhouse to make way for a commercial development in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Instead, the five-story project was built surrounding her house.
TIL a British short film about the dangers of paedophiles was presented by Rolf Harris who was later charged as a paedophile (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL the first Star Wars movie (A New Hope) was actually made after a book adaptation, which means Star Wars hype is technically literary-based in nature (starwars.fandom.com)
TIL that In 2018, A hacker broke into people’s routers (100,000 of them) and patched their vulnerabilities up so that they couldn’t be abused by other hackers. (www.zdnet.com)
Internet vigilante claims he patched over 100,000 MikroTik routers already.
TIL Leona Helmsley was a real piece of shit (en.wikipedia.org)
During the trial, a former housekeeper testified that she had heard Helmsley say: “We don’t pay taxes; only the little people pay taxes”, a quote which was identified with her for the rest of her life.
TIL what the ancient Mesopotamians ate for dinner (www.bbc.com)
for the lamb stew known as tu’hu, first you get water. Then you sear leg meat in fat. In go salt, beer, onion, rocket, coriander, Persian shallot, cumin, beets, water. Crushed leek and garlic and more coriander, for a fiery taste. Then add kurrat, an Egyptian leek.
TIL about the "Dilberito," a vegetarian wrap concocted by Dilbert creator Scott Adams to tie into his comic strip. The product was a colossal failure, (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that on hearing about Kristallnacht, Kaiser Willhelm II said from his exile "For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German". (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL the mangaka Naoko Takeuchi (Sailor Moon) is married to another famous manga author Yoshihiro Togashi (Hunter x Hunter and Yu Yu Hakusho) (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL: Why News Was So Neutral in the '50s & '60s (youtu.be)
Long but good.
TIL Most Explosives used by Hamas Are Unexploded Israeli Bombs Dropped on Palestine (medium.com)
TIL Chess Boxing is a real thing (en.m.wikipedia.org)
TIL the middle finger was used offensively from 423 BC (www.dictionary.com)
TIL that the two people to have been the oldest when serving as POTUS are Joe Biden and Donald Trump (en.wikipedia.org)
This is based on their age at the beginning of their term....
TIL John Lennon made a song "Working Class Hero" that was intended to jolt the system (www.youtube.com)
I was reading this article from 1970 and he’s obviously a complicated dude: archive.is/POtvB...
TIL about Wirtz pumps. Put a hose in a vertical spiral and spin it in a body of water and it'll pump water through the hose with way more pressure than you would think. (www.youtube.com)
TIL of The Business Plot of 1933, a failed attempt to overthrow FDR and install a dictator. Led by a covertly bankrolled Wall Street coalition of affluent businessmen (explorethearchive.com)
In 1933, a coalition of businessmen dissatisfied with FDR’s economic policies surreptitiously planned a coup. The failed Business Plot aimed to depose FDR and install a dictator.
TIL There is a subgenre of porn called Zombie Porn. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL that the connection between Parkinson's and pesticides was discovered after Californian drug users injected themselves with faulty heroin that contained a neurotoxin byproduct, subsequently exhibiting symptoms (www.iospress.com)
It was only in the early 1980s that the first tangible evidence connecting a toxicant with neurodegeneration came to light. In a tragic experiment of nature, a group of drug users in California accidentally injected themselves with a bad batch of designer heroin and began suffering from symptoms closely resembling those of...
TIL depression peaks at ages 20-24 in the US. (ourworldindata.org)
Different countries have different distributions, click “change”. Canada, Australia, New Zealand have similar to the US. France, Germany, UK peak 40-44.