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 eating 1 gram polar bear liver can be fatal due to an overdose of vitamin A that makes your skin fall off (animals.howstuffworks.com)
A healthy human liver contains 575 international units (IU) of vitamin A per gram while a polar bear’s liver contains between 24,000 and 35,000 IU per gram. Compare that to the tolerable upper level of vitamin A intake for a healthy adult human: 10,000. Signs of toxicity generally occur when approximately 25,000 to 33,000 IU...
TIL: You can save old-growth forests by switching toilet paper (lemmy.nowsci.com)
Most Toilet Paper, especially brands like Charmin from P&G, are cut from old-growth forest, which is way worse for our planet than losing new growth....
TIL depression peaks at ages 20-24 in the US. (ourworldindata.org)
Different countries have different distributions, click “change”. Canada, Australia, New Zealand have similar to the US. France, Germany, UK peak 40-44.
TIL the fortune-telling practice of Tyromancy uses cheese to predict the future. (www.saveur.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 A city made of ice in Harbin that's built annually and will melt away after 3 months (rumble.com)
TIL There's a 1.7 Billion Year Old Naturally Occuring Fission Reactor in Africa (en.m.wikipedia.org)
TIL that operating system Linux is an example of anarcho-communism (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL the trump campaign directed collaborators to forge and mail in false 2020 electoral documents to try to trick the national archives into certifying trump as the victor in states he lost to Biden. (people.com)
I came across a post in a Michigan community that mentioned this, and i asked if it really happened because it seems so crazy that Republican collaborators would directly mail in fake documents saying Trump won states he lost and I hadn’t even really heard about it....
As if elephants weren't already awesome, they eat xmas trees! (apnews.com)
There’s a bit of post-Christmas cheer on the menu for elephants at the Berlin Zoo: they can chomp on Christmas trees that didn’t find a home.
TIL that Xbox Controllers can have firmware updates. (iusearchlinux.fyi)
Settings -> Devices & connections -> Controllers & headsets -> (Select your controller) -> (Three dot menu) -> Update now....
TIL Microsoft Paint has a "feature" where the mouse will move when you press an arrow key, even if Paint isn't in the foreground. (superuser.com)
this is why wayland will never be used /s...
TIL that the two people to have been the oldest when serving as POTUS are Joe Biden and Donald Trump (en.wikipedia.org)
This is based on their age at the beginning of their term....
TIL Star Trek’s (1966) theme song originally had lyrics written by Gene Roddenberry, who wrote them solely to usurp half of the royalties from composer Alexander Courage. The lyrics never aired. (www.snopes.com)
And they were comically bad:...
TIL How we plan nuclear waste warning to last 100,000 years (www.euronews.com)
TIL that the logo for CNN Arabic uses the CNN logo as part of the Arabic for "in Arabic" (بالعربية). (sopuli.xyz)
TIL about Salim Kara, who stole over $2m of coins by using a car antenna and a magnet (www.nofreelunch.co.uk)
TIL that the telescope that capted the Wow! Signal (only likely candidate to be of ET origin) was razed to make room for a golf course (skeptoid.com)
TIL about Babylonian astronomy - Wikipedia (en.m.wikipedia.org)
TIL: You can pin items in Androids share tray. (lemmy.world)
This I actually learned today from another user’s pain post about Android 14....
TIL DuoLingo offers language courses for Klingon and High Valyrian (lemmy.world)
tlhIngan Hol vIghojtaH!
TIL that bats like these exist IRL (Painted Wooly Bat, *projapoti badur*) (static.nationalgeographic.co.uk)
It looks like a cheap, fuzzy Halloween decoration in the most cheesy way possible, as if someone took the model of a regular boring black bat and recolored it in the “classic” Halloween color scheme to make it look “spooky”. If I’d encounter such a creature in a videogame or movie, I’d laugh at the absurdity. It...
TIL that in a few areas of battle in WWI, the 1914 Christmas Truce lasted all the way until New Year's (www.bbc.com)
The following Christmas, machine gun barrages were deliberately timed to drown out any sound of carol singing to prevent spontaneous truces happening again.
TIL that a bunch of medieval manuscripts featured illustrations of knights fighting giant snails, and no one knows why (www.bbc.com)
