TIL: There was an animated tv show based on the children's book series Busytown called The Busy World of Richard Scarry (en.wikipedia.org)
Busytown
TIL about Lloydminster, a Canadian town that lies within two provinces but is a single municipality (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL: How the West Debt Trapped The Democratic Republic of Congo; The Richest Country in the World (medium.com)
[TIL] The worst shark attack in history (getpocket.com)
The USS Indianapolis had delivered the crucial components of the first operational atomic bomb to a naval base on the Pacific island of Tinian. On August 6, 1945, the weapon would level Hiroshima. But now, on July 28, the Indianapolis sailed from Guam, without an escort, to meet the battleship USS Idaho in the Leyte Gulf in the...
TIL in 1985 French government agents bombed and sank a Greenpeace ship docked in Auckland, New Zealand, killing a freelance photographer (en.m.wikipedia.org)
TIL "How do you dress?" means "Which pants leg do you put your penis down?" (www.realmenrealstyle.com)
So the tailor doesn’t touch your penis when they’re measuring you
TIL: There are 27.4 Empty Homes for Each Homeless Person in the U.S (medium.com)
TIL: How António Moniz Won the Nobel Prize for the Frontal Lobotomy in 1949 (medium.com)
TIL that Chironomia is the art of using gesticulations or hand gestures to good effect in traditional rhetoric or oratory. (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL the term Redneck likely originated from the sunburned red neck of those working in fields. (en.wikipedia.org)
The term originally characterized farmers that had a red neck, caused by sunburn from long hours working in the fields. A citation from 1893 provides a definition as “poorer inhabitants of the rural districts … men who work in the field, as a matter of course, generally have their skin stained red and burnt by the sun, and...
TIL: How Opioid sales quadrupled between 1999 and 2010, with 91 Americans dying daily from opioid overdoses (medium.com)
TIL about de la Chapelle syndrome where people with XX chromosomes are born with traditionally masculine organs & presentation. Usually those with the trait are unaware they have XX chromosomes at all (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL sailing ships commonly moved around without wind by warping (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Warping is throwing an anchor either manually for a small ship or by rowing the anchor out and dropping it farther away for a larger ship. Then the ship would reel it to change position. Good for maneuvering in harbor. Etymologically related to “throwing” and essentially threading a needle across the sea....
TIL: How Private Prisons Sued The State of Arizona for Not Having Enough Prisoners (medium.com)
TIL: The Chicken soup for the soul publisher owns redbox (www.foxbusiness.com)
TIL humans are the only animal with a chin. We aren't sure why. (www.smithsonianmag.com)
TIL Private Prison stocks skyrocketed when Trump was first elected (www.thestreet.com)
TIL about Wabi-sabi, the Japanese aesthetic worldview of accepting the simple, imperfect, and transient things in the world. Similar to kintsugi (repairing broken pottery with golden paste), it's abou (en.wikipedia.org)
Today I learned Choice VA was created after the 2014 VA scandel. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
TIL that in Melbourne, a 1 : 1 000 000 000 scale model of the solar system includes a mini-Proxima-Centauri that is one-time-around-the-entire-world away at this scale. (stkildamelbourne.com.au)
From the pdf:...
TIL about the TRAPPIST-1 Star System (en.wikipedia.org)
(it’s not a solar system because Sol is our star, specifically; we’re the only Solar system)...
TIL about Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment considered by some to be an "information hazard" - a concept or idea that can cause you harm by you simply knowing/understanding it (en.wikipedia.org)
Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment which states that an otherwise benevolent artificial superintelligence (AI) in the future would be incentivized to create a virtual reality simulation to torture anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to...
TIL: How Henry Ford’s Strange Social Program Aimed to Control The Personal Lives Of Workers (medium.com)
TIL that there is a global, time traveling radio (sort of) (radiooooo.com)
You can choose anywhere on earth, pick a decade, and hear music from that time and place. Pretty neat.
TIL most cultures and peoples all over the world have historically had trouble recognizing the color blue (www.ancientoriginsunleashed.com)
