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TIL: Benjamin Netanyahu’s Family Originally had the Surname Mileikowsky When They Came to Palestine from Poland in the 1920s (medium.com)

TIL that Telefonicá sells 'anonymous' location data of their clients. (www.heise.de)

TL;DR Some cellular cetwork providers triangulate your location and sell it to god knows who. And since real anonymous data is a lie, those who buy that data probably can tell who and where you are. Check if you can opt-out....

TIL that a billionaire bought Lonely Planet and put an inexperienced 24 year old wedding photographer in charge (www.nbcnews.com)

TIL on 29 April 2013, scientists reported that during spaceflight microbes seem to adapt to the space environment in ways "not observed on Earth" (en.wikipedia.org)

and in ways that “can lead to increases in growth and virulence”....

TIL Kudzu growth in the US has been way overestimated. Newer estimates stated that Asian privet had invaded some 3.2 million acres—14 times kudzu’s territory (www.smithsonianmag.com)

In news media and scientific accounts and on some government websites, kudzu is typically said to cover seven million to nine million acres across the United States. But scientists reassessing kudzu’s spread have found that it’s nothing like that. In the latest careful sampling, the U.S. Forest Service reports that kudzu...

TIL that there is a Refugee Team in the Olympics (olympics.com)

TIL that science does still not fully understand how cycling works (www.cbc.ca)

TIL: There is a species of penguin that lives in the southern point of Africa. (African penguin (Spheniscus demersus), also known as Cape penguin or South African penguin.) (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL Gargoyles are named that because of the water they gargle out of their mouths. (www.merriam-webster.com)

Proper use of the term gargoyle being the statues that drain water from buildings....

TIL: There is a breed of goat that is half black and half white -- The Valais Blackneck goat (en.wikipedia.org)

(Full disclosure, I learned this yesterday.)...

TIL about Babylonian astronomy - Wikipedia (en.m.wikipedia.org)

TIL Reno became known as the “Divorce Capital of the World.” (99percentinvisible.org)

For much of modern history, it has been relatively easy to get married, and extremely difficult to get divorced...

TIL: There is a community on Lemmy where people share Weird and Oddly Specific (music) Playlists (lemmy.world)

TIL about Halal Ribfest (barbecue/food that's permitted by a Muslim diet) and they go on tour. (www.halalribfest.com)

TIL of the Mobile phone throwing competition that originated in Finland (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL Legionnaires' disease (form of walking pneumonia) got its name from an outbreak at an American Legion convention (99percentinvisible.org)

TIL "The moderate position on Ukraine is to hold both Russia and the US empire responsible for their respective roles in starting and continuing this war. That’s the middle ground." (caitlinjohnstone.com)

The mainstream position in the west is that Putin invaded Ukraine solely because he is evil and hates freedom, and that Moscow is 100% responsible for this conflict in every way while the US is just an innocent little flower who just wants to protect freedom and democracy. When you actually spell out what the mainstream position...

TIL that Judy Garland was the mother of Liza Minelli 😱 (it.wikipedia.org)

TIL: How António Moniz Won the Nobel Prize for the Frontal Lobotomy in 1949 (medium.com)

TIL that in Melbourne, a 1 : 1 000 000 000 scale model of the solar system includes a mini-Proxima-Centauri that is one-time-around-the-entire-world away at this scale. (stkildamelbourne.com.au)

From the pdf:...

TIL abou the Amalgam Comics, a joint publication by DC & Marvel featuring characters that were a mix of those from both universes (en.wikipedia.org)

About the comics: antifandom.com/marvel/wiki/Amalgam_Comics...

TIL 2010 Vancouver luge gold medallist Felix Loch had his medal melted into two discs and gave one to the parents of a deceased competitor who died in a practice run on the day of the opening ceremony (www.si.com)

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