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TIL about Freedom Fries. In 2003, France opposed the US-led invasion of Iraq. In response, businesses across the United States renamed “French fries” to “Freedo...

en.wikipedia.org·25w·r/todayilearned

TIL 600 kilograms of highly enriched uranium (HEU)—almost pure U-235 was discovered in 1993 just sitting out in the open in Kazakhstan

airandspaceforces.com·25w·Hacker News, r/todayilearned

TIL that people with AB+ blood type are 82% more likely to develop thinking and memory problems that can lead to dementia than people with other blood types

aan.com·25w·r/todayilearned

TIL that the A10 Thunderbolt is designed to remain airworthy even if missing an engine, half of the tail, only one elevator, and missing half of a wing. If the ...

en.wikipedia.org·25w·r/todayilearned

TIL that the Mazda 787B, which won the 1991 24h of Le Mans, was so loud that when driver Volker Weidler lost an earplug while driving, it gave him permanent hea...

ck-modelcars.de·25w·r/todayilearned

TIL Dale Earnhardt, who was active with the Make a Wish Foundation, granted the wish of a girl who wanted to give him a penny for good luck in the Daytona 500. ...

en.wikipedia.org·25w·r/todayilearned

TIL "Dry Cleaning" isn't actually dry, it just washes with a solvent rather than water

home.howstuffworks.com·25w·r/todayilearned

https://www.tba.org/index.cfm?pg=LawBlog&blAction=showEntry&blogEntry=20395

tba.org·906w

TIL that the Nuremberg Charter's definition of "crimes against humanity", which was used in the Nuremberg Trials, includes only acts committed during a war of a...

en.wikipedia.org·25w·r/todayilearned

TIL that the A-10 'Warthog' close-air-support plane, infamous for being "a gun with a plane", has to return the spent shell casings from it's massive forward mo...

en.wikipedia.org·25w·r/todayilearned

TIL that in Japan during the Edo period, the gonin-gumi system held groups of five households collectively responsible for each other's crimes, so people were p...

ukiyo-japan.pl·25w·r/todayilearned

TIL that the Miami cannibal did not actually have bath salts in his system after toxicological testing

en.wikipedia.org·25w·r/todayilearned

TIL 99% of human history happened in prehistory (before the invention of writing). It’s the longest period of human history, lasting for 3.4 million years

en.wikipedia.org·25w·r/todayilearned, r/todayilearned

TIL of Nandy, a disabled Neanderthal skeleton found in Iraq who suffered blindness, major hearing loss, a missing arm, and other serious healed injuries that li...

en.wikipedia.org·25w·r/todayilearned

TIL while Gaddafi was in Italy for the World Food Summit he hired 200 models to attend a party. But instead spent the entire night lecturing them on Islam befor...

theguardian.com·25w·r/todayilearned

TIL that after the Maersk Alabama pirate hijacking in 2009, the $30,000 cash the pirates stole from the ship and stowed in the lifeboat was never found. 2 SEAL ...

en.wikipedia.org·25w·r/todayilearned

TIL Betel (Areca) nut is the 4th most-used psychoactive drug in the world, after nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine. It's estimated that at least 10% of the world ...

adf.org.au·25w·r/todayilearned

TIL about Alexandrine Irene, a German princess who was born with Down Syndrome. Unlike was standard for the time, she was not hidden away from the public, and a...

en.wikipedia.org·25w·r/todayilearned

TIL Michael J. Fox's middle name is Andrew.

en.wikipedia.org·25w·r/todayilearned

TIL the word “Seoul”, the name of South Korea’s capital, is an old Korean word meaning “capital city”.

en.wikipedia.org·25w·r/todayilearned

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