TIL the US government once banned sliced bread (www.mentalfloss.com)
TIL that a Frenchman ate a plane (en.m.wikipedia.org)
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/31e7c2b9-3af8-49c2-9483-d0eba629c56e.jpeg
Why you almost never see a clock at the mall (thehustle.co)
TIL researchers reviewed 40 episodes of the "Dr. Oz Show" and discovered that almost half of the medical advice had no supporting evidence (www.reliasmedia.com)
TIL The initial rate in 1866 for messages sent along transatlantic cable was $10 a word, with a ten word minimum. (www.pbs.org)
The initial rate in 1866 for messages sent along the transatlantic cable was ten dollars a word, with a ten word minimum, meaning that a skilled workman of the day would have to set aside ten weeks’ salary in order to send a single message. As a practical matter, this limited cable use to governments (transmissions from the...
TIL kobolds in Japan are dog-people because of a mistranslation in a copy of AD&D in the 80s
I was reading about Dungeon Meshi and Kuro, the “kobold”....
TIL Making a living writing books is more or less as rare as becoming a billionaire (www.theintrinsicperspective.com)
TIL Many bronze age peoples forgot what stone age tools were, and thought discovered ones as some kind of mystical talismans or signs from a thunder god (www.theguardian.com)
Also mistaken for fulgurite by the more naturalistically minded, apparently. Maybe most common in the Nordics, based on viking references?...
TIL Einstein compared Israel to Nazis in 1948 (NYT) (monyet.cc)
This letter was written to the Editors of the New York Times Dec. 2, 1948 – several months after the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel....
TIL Lisztomania or Liszt fever was the intense fan frenzy directed toward Hungarian composer Franz Liszt during his performances in the 1800s. (aussie.zone)
From Wikipedia:...
TiL the car and gas industry knew about the health risks of leaded fuel but sold it for 100 years anyway
link :...
TIL that there are two words in the English language that rhyme with 'purple'
I always believed that there were none, but on a rewatch of QI, I learned there are actually two:...
TIL that the Mormons have one fund worth over $100 billion (www.sltrib.com)
They are required to talk about anything over $100 million but they “didn’t want people to be discouraged about tithing to them.”...
TIL BLACK SQUARE XVII is an artwork made from vitrified nuclear waste created by Taryn Simon. The piece will be put on display when deemed safe for human exposure in 3015. (aussie.zone)
👉 Garage Gallery...
TIL: How Private Prisons Sued The State of Arizona for Not Having Enough Prisoners (medium.com)
Today I learned an oil company prevented the rescue of contracted divers working on their pipe to save money. (www.youtube.com)
en.wikipedia.org/…/Trinidad_Petroleum_Holdings#Pa…...
TIL Stanley the tool company is different from Stanley the cup company
Hail corporate and all that....
TIL researchers at a base in Antarctica started to develop a new accent (pubs.aip.org)
TIL Orange Juice is transported pasteurized in tanker ships (www.theshipyardblog.com)
Wonder what kind of environmental damage would happen if one crashed. Are they properly prepared for a captain having one too many screwdrivers?
TIL The Goodhart's Law: Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes.
Here is the Wikipedia link.
TIL: There is a community on Lemmy that is preserving old cooking recipes. (lemmy.world)
TIL researchers recorded the brain waves of a dying person, they showed patterns similar to those occurring during memory recall. (blog.frontiersin.org)
Neuroscientists have recorded the activity of a dying human brain and discovered rhythmic brain wave patterns around the time of death that are similar to those occurring during dreaming, memory recall, and meditation. Now, a study published to Frontiers brings new insight into a possible organizational role of the brain during...
TIL: There are 27.4 Empty Homes for Each Homeless Person in the U.S (medium.com)
The music usage "album" refers to the original practice of creating an album book of several 78s bound as separate pages, like a stamp or photo album. (lemmy.world)
www.reddit.com/r/vinyl/comments/…/d3579rg/
TIL That Britain Is Poorer Than Any US State, Even Mississippi (www.forbes.com)
