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TIL Keiko, the orca from Free Willy, is buried in a grave in Norway (www.atlasobscura.com)

TIL A city made of ice in Harbin that's built annually and will melt away after 3 months (rumble.com)

TIL about Hallstatt mine; the oldest mine in the world (www.google.com)

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/42d72783-7b6f-4bc6-9562-f171634bfb93.webp

TIL Black mold is used in the manufacturing of Citric Acid

The substrate for the fermentation is a carbohydrate, usually molasses or a sugar, such as raw beet, refined beet, or cane sugars, or a syrup. … Certain inorganic nutrients, such as ammonium nitrate, potassium phosphate, magnesium sulfate, zinc sulfate, and potassium ferrocyanide, are added. The pH is adjusted to between 3 and...

TIL Stonehenge has been 'restored' at least 3 times, and may not be in it's original position due to stone removal and replacement. (odysee.com)

Found as one of the top recommended videos on Odyssey.com

TIL: In the song DARE it's "you've got to press it on you" rather than "you've got depression on you" (genius.com)

TIL "several nations recognize the right of prisoners to attempt to escape prison or jail, including Belgium, Germany, Austria, and Mexico due to what is seen as basic human nature..." (www.grunge.com)

Source: grunge.com/…/why-it-is-legal-to-attempt-to-escape…...

TIL - Laboratory experiments show that bacteria really do eat and digest plastic (www.sciencedaily.com)

TIL that retired chemist, Khonghao Shou, predicted the 2003 earthquake in Bam, Iran by observing cloud formations.

He not only predicted the approximate date, but also the magnitude and epicenter....

TIL that France and Spain are in the wrong time zone because of Nazis.

France was put on to German time when conquered by Nazi Germany....

TIL that the descendants of the Wittelsbach family, that reigned the Bavaria until 1918, still receive 14 million euros annually (castleholic.com)

Descendants of the Wittelsbach family, that reigned the Bavaria until 1918, still receive 14 million euros annually from a compensation fund that was established 100 years ago. The head of the family also has the right to live in Schloss Nymphenburg in Munich.

TIL Michigan is the top cherry producing state (www.tastingtable.com)

TIL the term "Mad as a Hatter" likely came from hat makers using mercury and the resulting mercury poisoning. (en.wikipedia.org)

Mercury poisoning of hat-makers – In 18th and 19th century England, mercury was used in the production of felt, which was commonly used in the hat-making trade at the time. Long-term use of mercury products often resulted in mercury poisoning-induced erethism among hat-makers.[1][2] In the late 19th-century United States, a...

TIL: How Henry Ford’s Strange Social Program Aimed to Control The Personal Lives Of Workers (medium.com)

TIL Shrek is based on a very weird book (www.polygon.com)

Didn’t even knew there was a shrek book, much less that he had laser-eyes. wtf the book looks better than the movie...

TIL about the concept of Weaponized Incompetence, which probably explains every issue you ever faced in a bureaucracy (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL a guide dog named Roselle led a group of people including her blind owner down 78 flights of stairs before the North Tower collapsed on 9/11. (wikiless.tiekoetter.com)

She only stopped to give kisses to a woman who was having a panic attack.

til Don Pardo worked as announcer on SNL until his death, age 96! (en.wikipedia.org)

Dominick George "Don" Pardo Jr. (February 22, 1918 – August 18, 2014) was an American radio and television announcer whose career spanned more than seven decades. A member of the Television Hall of Fame, Pardo was noted for his 70-year tenure with NBC, working as the announcer for early incarnations of such notable shows as...

TIL the only guy in ZZ Top without a giant beard is named Frank Beard. (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL there was a third founder of Apple. He sold his 10% of the company for $800 worried that his assets could be seized by creditors if the company failed (www.cnbc.com)

TIL In Google Maps on mobile, you can tilt the view angle by moving two fingers up or down

I knew the tilt functionally had been there forever on Desktop, but no idea the gesture existed on the mobile App…

TIL that the first person to receive a speeding ticket was going 8 mph.

According to Guinness World Records, the first person charged with speeding was Walter Arnold from Paddock Wood, Kent. On 28 January 1896, Arnold was seen going 4 times the allowed 2 mph speed limit in his Benz. The constable pursued him on his bicycle, issuing a ticket for £4 7s (roughly £260 in today’s money), of which 10...

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