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TIL: A South Korean software engineer commemorated a headstone for Internet Explorer which read "He was a good tool to download other browsers" (www.reuters.com)

TIL Mr. Tornado (Tetsuya Fujita) who created the tornado intensity F0-F5 scale was living in the primary target city when the atomic bomb was dropped but the city was spared because it was too cloudy (www.fox6now.com)

“It was a certain weather pattern that spared Fujita from that bombing, allowing him to pursue his atmospheric discoveries....

TIL about the 1957 Kyshtym disaster in the USSR, where improperly stored nuclear waste exploded and created the third-worst peacetime nuclear incident in history. It was kept secret until 1976. (en.wikipedia.org)

To make it worse, before they decided to store the nuclear waste, they’d just dump it into the river, which was used as drinking water by thousands of people. Again, kept secret.

TIL Wikipedia is an arm of the propaganda machine for politicians and gov't agencies (web.archive.org)

You can read more about Larry’s encyclosphere here: larrysanger.org/…/the-encyclosphere-is-greater-th…

TIL 20 climbers set up a jaccuzzi on the summit of Mont Blanc at an elevation of 4807m (www.jaccuzzi.ch)

This website is pretty cool anyway, you may want to use chrome to translate the french into a desired language. They also provide a list of selfmade jaccuzzis from all the way back of 2001.

TIL India still officially recognises 5 sub-national monarchies, known as the 'Kings of Dangs'. They receive payment from the government every year during Holi (en.wikipedia.org)

As per the treaty signed in 1842 the British were allowed to use the forests and their natural products against which they had to pay around 3,000 silver coins to the five kings. Currently the kings receive a monthly political pension by the Government of India, which is the main source of their income. This payment is continued...

TIL The Gospel of Judas, discovered in 2007, is one of many of "non-canonical" gospels from the same periods as the 4 canon gospels, and are, in some cases, arbitraliy excluded: Marcion, Judas, Man... (wikipedia.org)

TIL that the Longyou Caves, a mysterious network of man-made caves over 2,000 years old, were never recorded in any historical documents and were only rediscovered by local farmers in 1992. (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL that Bhutan doesn't recognize China in any way, shape or form (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL There's a town in Spain that has an annual tomato fight; last year 130 tonnes of tomatoes were thrown by attendees (www.reuters.com)

TIL in 1969, concert promoter Bill Graham was asked to help organize the Woodstock Festival. He agreed under one condition: that Santana would be included in the lineup. After Bill persisted, Santa... (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL The percentage of Neanderthal DNA in modern humans is zero or close to zero in people from African populations, and is about 1 to 2 percent in people of European or Asian background. (medlineplus.gov)

Some direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies report how much DNA a person has inherited from prehistoric humans. Learn what this information means.

TIL that Ozzy Osbourne and Lita Ford once encountered each other in the studio, drank heavily and inadvertently wrote a song together. It ended up being the highest charting US single of either of ... (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL: In 2002, Kenya formally donated 14 cows to the US as a way to show compassion to them after the 9/11 tragedy. (www.911memorial.org)

TIL Two of Kurt Cobain's closest friends, Mark Lanegan and Dylan Carlson credit Courtney Love with saving their lives in the years after his death. She felt he would want them to be saved and decid... (www.ultimate-guitar.com)

‘What kind of friend am I? Because this guy used to look up to me.’

TIL that in the 1980s, Tom Fogerty, rhythm guitarist for Creedence Clearwater Revival, underwent back surgery, and was given a blood transfusion that was not screened for HIV causing him to become ... (www.grunge.com)

It was reported that Fogerty’s tuberculosis was a complication from the AIDS virus, which he acquired from a tainted blood transfusion during back surgery.

TIL that the words "lesbian" and "sapphic" both come from this legendary woman named Sappho who lived on the island of Lesbos (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL married people who undergo gastric bypass surgery and lose significant weight are twice as likely to get divorced. (www.upmc.com)

A new Pitt study shows that adults who get weight-loss surgery are more than twice as likely to get married or divorced in the next five years

TIL that a TV show called “This Is Your Life” invited Kiyoshi Tanimoto, a Japanese minister and atomic bomb survivor from Hiroshima. The show also featured a surprise guest, Robert Lewis, copilot o... (electricliterature.com)

by Mike Meginnis A 1950s television show did the unthinkable: surprise a victim of the Hiroshima bombing by introducing him to one of the bombers on live TV. Running from 1952 to 1961, This is Your Life was an emotionally intense experiment in early reality TV. Subjects were lured to the studio under false pretenses, then host...