TIL that the earliest instance of referring to someone as "toast" to mean doomed was a line that Bill Murray ad-libbed in Ghostbusters (www.giantfreakinrobot.com)
TIL some sharks lay eggs and they look like this (lemmy.world)
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)
The Japanese developers of Puck-Man changed the name to Pac-Man when porting it to North America to avoid a scenario where the "P" in Puck Man would be changed to an "F", forming an obscene name.
Eyeing the game’s success in Japan, Namco initialized plans to bring the game to the international market, particularly the United States.[26] Before showing the game to distributors, Namco America made a number of changes, such as altering the names of the ghosts.[26] The biggest of these was the game’s title; executives at...
TIL that Anthony Blinken, current US Secretary of State, has over 650 monthly listeners on Spotify.
open.spotify.com/artist/5ZWgy4Riyzr0QtvcIKiZmF
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 in New York you can apply to have a fire hydrant opened during hot weather (www.theguardian.com)
TIL About the Loudest plane Developed in USA (Thunderscreech) (lemmy.world)
Basically, the “Thunderscreech” was one of the most weird planes developed during the Cold War. The idea was combine the high climbing rates of motors with propellers and the supersonic speeds of jets… The problem? In the tip of propellers, the air move much faster, thus, creating shock waves, producing noise capable of...
c/TIL: We need a new icon! [META]
Let’s get together and make a nice icon to decorate our community. All input appreciated!
TIL that the divorce rate of Navy Seals is over 90%/The average length of a marriage is 8 years (www.midlifedivorcerecovery.com)
TIL 50-80% of the population has herpes (www.hopkinsmedicine.org)
TIL Upon the death of the Dalai Lama, a search for his reincarnation is conducted where a child is identified through a series of 'tests' before being recognized as the succeeding Dalai Lama. The c... (en.wikipedia.org)
