TIL about de la Chapelle syndrome where people with XX chromosomes are born with traditionally masculine organs & presentation. Usually those with the trait are unaware they have XX chromosomes at all ( en.wikipedia.org )
Thoughts on the idea of redwashing? ( en.wikipedia.org )
Zveno project ( en.wikipedia.org )
Zveno (Russian: Звено, a military unit "Flight") was a parasite aircraft developed in the Soviet Union during the 1930s. It was the brainchild of the aviation engineer Vladimir Vakhmistrov. It consisted of a Tupolev TB-1 or a Tupolev TB-3 heavy bomber mothership and two to five fighters. Depending on the variant, the...
Megaminx ( en.wikipedia.org )
Saltair (Utah) ( en.wikipedia.org )
List of animal names ( en.wikipedia.org )
Enabling Act of 1933 ( en.wikipedia.org )
Ciabatta (a bread invented in 1982) ( en.wikipedia.org )
Quipu ( en.wikipedia.org )
Supercontinent cycle ( en.wikipedia.org )
Woolsack (Parliamentary furniture) ( en.wikipedia.org )
If you open any wiki related to the British Parliament you can can click to something weird and incomprehensible very quickly.
Tillie (murals) ( en.wikipedia.org )
Edgar Cayce ( en.wikipedia.org )
Tetris effect ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL a particular wealthy Roman named Spurius Maelius was executed and his house razed for giving discounted food to the poor ( en.wikipedia.org )
Author: /u/hateful_surely_not...
Small penis rule ( en.wikipedia.org )
It's just a short text article
Pallasite ( en.wikipedia.org )
Golem ( en.wikipedia.org )
Imagined speech (thinking in the form of sound, aka endophasia) ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL 390,127 people stated they were “Jedi” in the 2001 UK census, making it the fifth largest religion in the country at the time. ( en.wikipedia.org )
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1dtpsu8/til_390127_people_stated_they_were_jedi_in_the/...
Dabbawala ( en.wikipedia.org )
Toxopneustes pileolus (flower urchin, a highly venomous reef-dwelling echinoderm) ( en.wikipedia.org )
One of the only marine organisms I find truly terrifying