UllallullooMAEnglish · 1 month agoTIL when the Allies liberated Nazi Belgium, they discovered a large amount of thorium sent to Germany was not being used for weapons but rather radioactive toothpasteplus-squaremuseumofradium.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up184arrow-down10
arrow-up184arrow-down1external-linkTIL when the Allies liberated Nazi Belgium, they discovered a large amount of thorium sent to Germany was not being used for weapons but rather radioactive toothpasteplus-squaremuseumofradium.co.ukUllallullooMAEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square4fedilink
UllallullooMAEnglish · edit-23 months agoTIL the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I also included a clause establishing concert pitch as A = 435 Hzplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up138arrow-down10
arrow-up138arrow-down1external-linkTIL the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I also included a clause establishing concert pitch as A = 435 Hzplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgUllallullooMAEnglish · edit-23 months agomessage-square14fedilink
UllallullooMAEnglish · 7 months agoTIL camels and llamas can interbreed to create hybrids called camastaylorllamas.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up130arrow-down10
arrow-up130arrow-down1external-linkTIL camels and llamas can interbreed to create hybrids called camastaylorllamas.comUllallullooMAEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square6fedilink
UllallullooMAEnglish · 8 months agoTIL that after hunting a serial killer whose DNA was found at 40 crime scenes across Germany and Austria for 16 years, police discovered the DNA belonged to a woman working at the swab factorynews.bbc.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up125arrow-down11
arrow-up124arrow-down1external-linkTIL that after hunting a serial killer whose DNA was found at 40 crime scenes across Germany and Austria for 16 years, police discovered the DNA belonged to a woman working at the swab factorynews.bbc.co.ukUllallullooMAEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square4fedilink
UllallullooMAEnglish · 10 months agoTIL the height of the Eiffel Tower varies by up to 15 cm (6 in) depending on the temperatureplus-squareengineering.purdue.eduexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up135arrow-down11
arrow-up134arrow-down1external-linkTIL the height of the Eiffel Tower varies by up to 15 cm (6 in) depending on the temperatureplus-squareengineering.purdue.eduUllallullooMAEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square2fedilink
DeadNinja@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoTIL that there is a species of Lizard that can literally walk on water (due to surface tension) and are known as Jesus Lizard.plus-squareen.m.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up124arrow-down13
arrow-up121arrow-down1external-linkTIL that there is a species of Lizard that can literally walk on water (due to surface tension) and are known as Jesus Lizard.plus-squareen.m.wikipedia.orgDeadNinja@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square0fedilink
library_napper@monyet.ccEnglish · 11 months agoTIL Einstein compared Israel to Nazis in 1948 (NYT)plus-squaremonyet.ccimagemessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up170arrow-down126
arrow-up144arrow-down1imageTIL Einstein compared Israel to Nazis in 1948 (NYT)plus-squaremonyet.cclibrary_napper@monyet.ccEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square20fedilink
UllallullooMAEnglish · 1 year agoTIL ceiling fans generally have a setting you're supposed to switch to make them blow down in the summer and up in the winterplus-squaretwitter.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down14
arrow-up164arrow-down1external-linkTIL ceiling fans generally have a setting you're supposed to switch to make them blow down in the summer and up in the winterplus-squaretwitter.comUllallullooMAEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square15fedilink
UllallullooMAEnglish · 1 year agoTIL the average height of a Japanese man in the 1950s was 4'11" (150cm)vccinews.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up120arrow-down10
arrow-up120arrow-down1external-linkTIL the average height of a Japanese man in the 1950s was 4'11" (150cm)vccinews.comUllallullooMAEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
UllallullooMAEnglish · 1 year agoTIL Michael Hart started Project Gutenberg by manually typing in the texts of 313 books on his ownplus-squarewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up176arrow-down10
arrow-up176arrow-down1external-linkTIL Michael Hart started Project Gutenberg by manually typing in the texts of 313 books on his ownplus-squarewww.theguardian.comUllallullooMAEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square1fedilink
UllallullooMAEnglish · 1 year agoTIL that Bolivia has 37 official languagesplus-squarewww.constituteproject.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down10
arrow-up115arrow-down1external-linkTIL that Bolivia has 37 official languagesplus-squarewww.constituteproject.orgUllallullooMAEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
UllallullooMAEnglish · 1 year agoTIL third-degree burns are not the worst; the scale goes up to sixth-degree burnswww.ncbi.nlm.nih.govexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down11
arrow-up121arrow-down1external-linkTIL third-degree burns are not the worst; the scale goes up to sixth-degree burnswww.ncbi.nlm.nih.govUllallullooMAEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square1fedilink
UllallullooMAEnglish · edit-21 year agoTIL that IQ test scores globally rose significantly from their introduction until the mid-1990s, after which they likely have started to declineplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up116arrow-down11
arrow-up115arrow-down1external-linkTIL that IQ test scores globally rose significantly from their introduction until the mid-1990s, after which they likely have started to declineplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgUllallullooMAEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square0fedilink
UllallullooMAEnglish · edit-21 year agoTIL skinned frog legs were the common scientific instrument used to detect electricity throughout the 18th and 19th centuriesplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down10
arrow-up19arrow-down1external-linkTIL skinned frog legs were the common scientific instrument used to detect electricity throughout the 18th and 19th centuriesplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgUllallullooMAEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square0fedilink
UllallullooMAEnglish · edit-21 year agoTIL Roman hours were not a fixed length of time but always just ¹⁄₁₂th of the daytime, so during the summer an hour could be 1½ modern hours while during the winter it could only be 40 minutesplus-squarearchive.orgexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1191arrow-down13
arrow-up1188arrow-down1external-linkTIL Roman hours were not a fixed length of time but always just ¹⁄₁₂th of the daytime, so during the summer an hour could be 1½ modern hours while during the winter it could only be 40 minutesplus-squarearchive.orgUllallullooMAEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square11fedilink
UllallullooMAEnglish · 1 year agoTIL that in 1866, one year after the end of the Civil War, one fifth of Mississippi's budget was spent on prosthetic limbsplus-squarewww.supertalk.fmexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down10
arrow-up122arrow-down1external-linkTIL that in 1866, one year after the end of the Civil War, one fifth of Mississippi's budget was spent on prosthetic limbsplus-squarewww.supertalk.fmUllallullooMAEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
UllallullooMAEnglish · 1 year agoTIL 55% of people have 3 bones in their pinky toes and 44% have 2 bonesplus-squarewww.sciencedirect.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up163arrow-down11
arrow-up162arrow-down1external-linkTIL 55% of people have 3 bones in their pinky toes and 44% have 2 bonesplus-squarewww.sciencedirect.comUllallullooMAEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square18fedilink
UllallullooMAEnglish · 1 year agoTIL 70% of Saudi Arabia's electrical consumption is used for air conditioningplus-squarerefindustry.comexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up1125arrow-down10
arrow-up1125arrow-down1external-linkTIL 70% of Saudi Arabia's electrical consumption is used for air conditioningplus-squarerefindustry.comUllallullooMAEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square6fedilink
UllallullooMAEnglish · edit-21 year agoTIL charged alkaline batteries don't bounce but dead ones doplus-squarewww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down13
arrow-up112arrow-down1external-linkTIL charged alkaline batteries don't bounce but dead ones doplus-squarewww.youtube.comUllallullooMAEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square2fedilink
UllallullooMAEnglish · 1 year agoTIL in the 1930s a street sweeper in Detroit was hit by two separate babies falling out of fourth-story windows a year apart.content.time.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10
arrow-up14arrow-down1external-linkTIL in the 1930s a street sweeper in Detroit was hit by two separate babies falling out of fourth-story windows a year apart.content.time.comUllallullooMAEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
