Syzygy (astronomy) ( en.wikipedia.org )
Ol Doinyo Lengai ( en.wikipedia.org )
...the lavas of Ol Doinyo Lengai have temperatures of 540–593 °C (1,004–1,099 °F); they are so cold that during the day they look like mudflows or oil and glow only during the night.
TIL that the original LOVE sculpture is housed in a museum in Indiana and was created Robert Indiana who born in Indiana ( en.wikipedia.org )
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1dpv7u6/til_that_the_original_love_sculpture_is_housed_in/...
Acqua alta ( en.wikipedia.org )
"an exceptional tide peak that occurs periodically in the northern Adriatic Sea. The term is applied to such tides in the Italian region of Veneto. The peaks reach their maximum in the Venetian Lagoon, where they cause partial flooding of Venice and Chioggia"
TIL Bill Gates was already the world's richest man even before Windows 95 was launched ( en.wikipedia.org )
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1dplrt0/til_bill_gates_was_already_the_worlds_richest_man/...
Stamp Stampede ( en.wikipedia.org )
Precariat ( en.wikipedia.org )
Bouba/kiki effect ( en.wikipedia.org )
A nice well-rounded article, gets right to the point
Cornfield Bomber ( en.wikipedia.org )
Operation Wandering Soul ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL that the plumber wrench and the adjustable wrench were both invented by the same person, a Swede from a family of tenant farmers. ( en.wikipedia.org )
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1dp16af/til_that_the_plumber_wrench_and_the_adjustable/...
Lavender Scare ( en.wikipedia.org )
Predator trap ( en.wikipedia.org )
Balloon glow ( en.wikipedia.org )
Cold and heat adaptations in humans ( en.wikipedia.org )
Salad Fingers ( en.wikipedia.org )
Citizendium (Wikipedia alternative/competitor) ( en.wikipedia.org )
Mariko Aoki phenomenon (the sudden urge to defecate after entering a bookstore) ( en.wikipedia.org )
Tabanidae (family including deer flies, horse flies and other vicious beasts) ( en.wikipedia.org )
Damnatio memoriae ( en.wikipedia.org )
Götz von Berlichingen (AKA Götz of the Iron Hand, the Medieval Mercenary Knight with an astonishingly sophisticated iron prosthetic hand) ( en.wikipedia.org )
Gottfried "Götz" von Berlichingen (pronounced [ˈgɔtfʁiːd fɔn ˈbɛʁlɪçɪŋən], [ˈgœts]; 15 November 1480 – 23 July 1562), also known as Götz of the Iron Hand, was a German (Franconian) Imperial Knight (Reichsritter), mercenary and poet. He was born around 1480 into the noble family of Berlichingen in modern-day...