Madbrad200@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoTIL of COCONUTS-2b, a giant gas planet that takes over 1 million years to orbit around its starplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL of COCONUTS-2b, a giant gas planet that takes over 1 million years to orbit around its starplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgMadbrad200@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
Madbrad200@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoTIL India still officially recognises 5 sub-national monarchies, known as the 'Kings of Dangs'. They receive payment from the government every year during Holiplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL India still officially recognises 5 sub-national monarchies, known as the 'Kings of Dangs'. They receive payment from the government every year during Holiplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgMadbrad200@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
Madbrad200@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoTIL of Cáin Adomnáin, "Europes first human rights treaty". Created in 697 CE, were a set of laws - which kings across Ireland & Scotland agreed to follow - guaranteeing safety of non-combatants in warplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL of Cáin Adomnáin, "Europes first human rights treaty". Created in 697 CE, were a set of laws - which kings across Ireland & Scotland agreed to follow - guaranteeing safety of non-combatants in warplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgMadbrad200@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
Madbrad200@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoTIL of the Kingdom of Bailundo, a non-sovereign monarchy located in Angola. Its king was notably deposed in 2021 after being charged of involvement in a murderplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL of the Kingdom of Bailundo, a non-sovereign monarchy located in Angola. Its king was notably deposed in 2021 after being charged of involvement in a murderplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgMadbrad200@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
Madbrad200@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoTIL an ant mega-colony exists across 3 continents and is thought to contain billions of ants, all of which recognise each other to be from the same colony. The largest part of the colony is in Europenews.bbc.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL an ant mega-colony exists across 3 continents and is thought to contain billions of ants, all of which recognise each other to be from the same colony. The largest part of the colony is in Europenews.bbc.co.ukMadbrad200@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 1 year agoTIL the Turks and Caicos accidentally had an igloo on its flag for almost eighty years despite comprising tropical islandswww.timespub.tcexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL the Turks and Caicos accidentally had an igloo on its flag for almost eighty years despite comprising tropical islandswww.timespub.tcUllallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · edit-21 year agoTIL when Robert De Niro sought Italian citizenship, he was opposed by the largest Italian-American group for damaging the reputation of Italians by playing gangstersplus-squarewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL when Robert De Niro sought Italian citizenship, he was opposed by the largest Italian-American group for damaging the reputation of Italians by playing gangstersplus-squarewww.theguardian.comUllallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square0fedilink
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · edit-21 year agoTIL in 2011 the Argentine government is believed to have begun making McDonald's underprice the Big Mac specifically to cover the country's high inflation on The Economist's Big Mac indexplus-squarewww.economist.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL in 2011 the Argentine government is believed to have begun making McDonald's underprice the Big Mac specifically to cover the country's high inflation on The Economist's Big Mac indexplus-squarewww.economist.comUllallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square0fedilink
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 1 year agoTIL in the 1900 Olympics, the Dutch pair rowing team fired their coxswain after the semifinals and won the gold medal with a random, unknown French boy as a lighter replacementplus-squarenowiknow.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL in the 1900 Olympics, the Dutch pair rowing team fired their coxswain after the semifinals and won the gold medal with a random, unknown French boy as a lighter replacementplus-squarenowiknow.comUllallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 1 year agoTIL treadmills originated as a form of punishment in prisonsplus-squarewww.mentalfloss.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL treadmills originated as a form of punishment in prisonsplus-squarewww.mentalfloss.comUllallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 1 year agoTIL there's exactly one upside-down traffic light in the US because the local Irish residents kept breaking it when red was above green.plus-squarenowiknow.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL there's exactly one upside-down traffic light in the US because the local Irish residents kept breaking it when red was above green.plus-squarenowiknow.comUllallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 1 year agoTIL that no one knows what the "p" in "pH" stands forplus-squarewww.nature.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL that no one knows what the "p" in "pH" stands forplus-squarewww.nature.comUllallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 1 year agoTIL the Soviet Union still produced advertisements, often of fake products, to make itself look more prosperousplus-squarewww.rbth.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL the Soviet Union still produced advertisements, often of fake products, to make itself look more prosperousplus-squarewww.rbth.comUllallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 1 year agoTIL Big Bird's puppeteer navigates by a TV inside the suit, showing what is being recorded by the cameraplus-squarewww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL Big Bird's puppeteer navigates by a TV inside the suit, showing what is being recorded by the cameraplus-squarewww.youtube.comUllallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
Senseibull@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoTIL: Nick Offerman of “ Parks and Recreation” is married to the woman who played his psycho-ex Tammy in real lifeplus-squareamp.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL: Nick Offerman of “ Parks and Recreation” is married to the woman who played his psycho-ex Tammy in real lifeplus-squareamp.theguardian.comSenseibull@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 1 year agoTIL during WWII a British corp's 5-day raid accidentally defeated and captured an entire Italian field army and recaptured western Egypt and half of Libyaplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL during WWII a British corp's 5-day raid accidentally defeated and captured an entire Italian field army and recaptured western Egypt and half of Libyaplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgUllallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
