TIL a Canadian from Greece took an American version of an Italian dish and added tropical fruit to it and called it a Hawaiian pizza. ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL the USA is the only country to not have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL Hunter S. Thomson got an early honorable discharge from the air force in part because, "Sometimes his rebel and superior attitude seems to rub off on other airmen staff members." ( en.wikipedia.org )
From Wikipedia:...
TIL about exploding head syndrome, which causes patients to hear a loud, frightening noise when falling asleep or waking up. Up to 10% of people may have it, but cases often go undiagnosed ( en.wikipedia.org )
cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/2659121
TIL that the white stuff that sometimes appears on chocolate is called "chocolate bloom". ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL ~62% of the atoms in a human body are Hydrogen, and are as old as the universe. ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL there is no original TI-84 as the TI-84 Plus was an upgrade (like iPhone 14 to 13) to the TI-83 Plus ( en.wikipedia.org )
And yes, TI calculators have indeed been improving, apparently....
TIL one of the oldest TV shows was simply called "Sea Stories" on the BBC, featuring Royal Navy Commander A.B. Campbell describing the personalities and places he had seen. No known footage exists. ( en.wikipedia.org )
aired from 1936-1937. if anyone has a copy pls lemme know
TIL about "Swill milk" where cows were fed distillery waste causing cow teeth rot and disease. It was also adulterated with raw eggs, burn sugar, etc. Swill milk lead to over 8,000 infant's deaths ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL about Swatch Internet Time, a decimal time system that has no time zones. ( en.wikipedia.org )
I feel that this is what we should be using instead of the current illogical time system.
TIL about Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment considered by some to be an "information hazard" - a concept or idea that can cause you harm by you simply knowing/understanding it ( en.wikipedia.org )
Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment which states that an otherwise benevolent artificial superintelligence (AI) in the future would be incentivized to create a virtual reality simulation to torture anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to...
TIL: There is a sculpture with four cryptic passages in it that stands outside the CIA's George Bush Center for Intelligence in Virginia ( en.wikipedia.org )
3 out of the 4 passages have solutions to date.
TIL that in 2014, a photographer tried to copyright a monkey's selfie and sue Wikipedia for it. ( en.wikipedia.org )
The EFF soon created a crossword, overlaid it on top of the monkey, and featured it on their website....
TIL the concept of "checkmate" originates from the Persian phrase "Shāh Māt," meaning "the king is helpless" or "the king is defeated." ( en.wikipedia.org )
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1cnkq1d/til_the_concept_of_checkmate_originates_from_the/...
TIL almost all vanilla plants are pollinated by hand. ( en.wikipedia.org )
I was reading about Edmond Albius, the former slave who learned how to pollinate the vanilla plant (at age 12!), which is why we have commercial vanilla today....
TIL about the concept of Weaponized Incompetence, which probably explains every issue you ever faced in a bureaucracy ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL that in 1932, Fritz Gerlich, a German journalist, made fun of Hitler’s bigotry by publishing a satire article “proving” that Hitler was Mongolian. Later, Gerlich was taken to Dachau and murdered. ( en.wikipedia.org )
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1cvbnwy/til_that_in_1932_fritz_gerlich_a_german/...
TIL the 1883 eruption of Krakotoa which killed 36,417 people was so loud it was heard 4800KM away and the sound wave travelled the earth over 3 times ( en.wikipedia.org )
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1cna0nb/til_the_1883_of_krakotoa_which_killed_36417/...
TIL about spider number 16, the longest lived spider on record, and the decades long study by researcher Barbara York Main ( en.wikipedia.org )
The article is short so I recommend reading it. I started adding the key points below, but ended up including almost the entire article:...
TIL Cass Elliot died in Harry Nilsson's apartment, and four years later Keith Moon died in the same room ( en.wikipedia.org )
Superfest glass ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL That Zoboomafoo was the lemur's stage name, with the full name being "Jovian Marcus Kendall" ( en.wikipedia.org )
As an extra TIL, he has grandchildren!...
TIL that the famous mime artist Marcel Marceau first used mime to help Jewish children quietly escape from occupied France in the World War II. ( en.wikipedia.org )
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1djmzq9/til_that_the_famous_mime_artist_marcel_marceau/...
Demon core ( en.wikipedia.org )
Byron Looper - Obsessed with his political career, he legally changed his middle name to "(Low Tax)" and murdered his election opponent ( en.wikipedia.org )
