TIL that Gavrilo Princip, who assassinated Franz Ferdinand, died of Tuberculosis three years and ten months after the assassination. (en.wikipedia.org)
Princip was nineteen years old at the time and too young to be executed, as he was twenty-seven days shy of the twenty-year minimum age limit required by Habsburg law.[43] On Thursday 28 October 1914 the court found Princip guilty of murder and high treason, he received the maximum sentence of twenty years in prison...
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 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 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 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 There's a 1.7 Billion Year Old Naturally Occuring Fission Reactor in Africa (en.m.wikipedia.org)
TIL A city made of ice in Harbin that's built annually and will melt away after 3 months (rumble.com)
TIL that operating system Linux is an example of anarcho-communism (en.wikipedia.org)
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...
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 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....
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 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 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)
TIL Happy Holidays literally means Happy Holy Day (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Happy Holidays to you all! Get bent, FOX news. Let everyone celebrate the season. Now, I am off to prepare for Festivus at my house.
