https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1cyw1mn/til_that_in_1968_students_at_the_university_of/...
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1cwv7sk/til_that_charles_schulz_the_creator_of_the/...
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/32164428 in !likethismaylike...
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1crv8u3/til_of_the_19th_century_dine_and_dasher_edward/...
Aliens, Nazis, and secret societies, oh my!
The journal reports an "ISI impact factor".[9] This impact factor is not from the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) or its successor Clarivate, but from a company named International Scientific Indexing.[10][11]...
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1cna6g6/til_the_1883_eruption_of_krakotoa_which_killed/...
Cross-posted from: !animationafter30...
Title: Gravity Falls...
I feared he would be martyred, when he returned to Russia after getting poisoned by the FSB and helping Bellingcat track down the agents who poisoned him (nobody in power did anything about them). Back then, his life was saved by a pilot deciding to make an emergency landing and a doctor suspecting a neurotoxin....
TIL The first man to finish the 1904 Olympic marathon rode in a car half the race. The actual winner had to be carried across the finish line after his coaches gave him a mix of brandy, eggs and strychnine. 4th place stole 2 peaches from a spectator, ate rotten apples from an orchard and took a nap.
and in ways that "can lead to increases in growth and virulence"....
