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TIL that there were prosperous civilizations in Africa before colonization, way more prosperous than we think, with Kingdoms and Empire implied in long-distance...

theguardian.com·32w·r/todayilearned

TIL the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs (~10 km wide) was no where near the biggest to ever hit Earth — earlier impacts were caused by asteroids 20–25 km acr...

en.wikipedia.org·32w·r/todayilearned

TIL that in 1999, a 15-year-old named Jonathan James hacked into NASA’s computers, accessed source code used for the International Space Station, and forced NAS...

justice.gov·32w·r/todayilearned

TIL the Jane Goodall Institute complained about one of Gary Larson's cartoons of her. She told them to be quiet, used the image to sell tshirts, and wrote the i...

screenrant.com·32w·r/Primates, r/todayilearned

TIL that the 90s-early 2000s icon Eliza Dushku was "inundated" with fan mails from prisoners due to her portrayal of Faith in the show Buffy The Vampire Slayer

en.wikipedia.org·32w·r/todayilearned

TIL the village of Kräkångersnoret in Sweden changed its name because evolution in the Swedish language led to the name being ridiculed for essentially meaning ...

en.wikipedia.org·32w·r/todayilearned

TIL only 1 in 5 US soldiers during WW2 were 'combat forces', everyone else was in support roles.

en.wikipedia.org·32w·DEV, r/todayilearned

TIL the most complex word in the English language is "run", with 645 possible different meanings.

rd.com·32w·Hacker News, r/todayilearned

TIL that the sample for Jay-Z’s song for “Hard Knock Life” was only cleared after Jay-Z wrote a letter to Annie’s composer claiming that seeing the musical on B...

npr.org·32w·r/todayilearned

TIL - Jon Stewart, met his wife Tracey on a blind date set up by a producer on the film 'Wishful Thinking', proposed to her through a personalized crossword puz...

en.wikipedia.org·32w·r/todayilearned

TIL The 1936 Xi'an Incident where Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the Nationalist government of China, was arrested by two of his generals demanding he ally with...

en.wikipedia.org·32w·r/todayilearned

TIL about Chaser, a border collie with the best tested memory of any non-human animal. She could recognize and fetch 1,022 toys by name and category.

en.wikipedia.org·32w·r/todayilearned

TIL The wood frog has the unique ability to freeze and stay in frozen state until they thaw during spring, and they can be frozen for up to 8 whole months. They...

en.wikipedia.org·32w·r/todayilearned

TIL Central African Republic leader, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, spent years looking for his long-lost daughter Martine, whom he fathered while serving in Vietnam. The ...

travelnoire.com·32w·r/todayilearned

TIL about the 1926 Baumes law, a New York statute where anyone convicted of more than three separate felonies would automatically receive life imprisonment, wit...

en.wikipedia.org·32w·r/todayilearned

TIL When James Dean first met Alec Guinness he asked him to take a look at his brand new Porsche Spyder. Guinness told Dean: "If you get in that car, you will b...

en.wikipedia.org·32w·r/todayilearned

TIL that chiggers don't actually burrow under your skin, but instead drink your liquified skin through a straw they make out of dead skin cells.

my.clevelandclinic.org·32w·r/todayilearned

TIL about KMBC-TV news anchor Christine Craft who was removed from the anchor position in August 1981 after a focus group had determined she was "too old, too u...

en.wikipedia.org·32w·r/todayilearned

TIL following the capitulation of France in WW2, ~1.8 million soldiers or approximately 10% of its adult male population became prisoners of war

en.wikipedia.org·32w·r/todayilearned

TIL that moving air cools things down by removing the "boundary layer" of warmer air around objects, exposing them to the colder air in the rest of the area

en.wikipedia.org·32w·r/todayilearned

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