OGNVR TIL that the first theory that an increase in atmospheric CO2 could warm the planet was formulated in 1892.
69KeJ TIL that Weimar Republic's official name was German Reich, and only got its famous name retroactively from Adolf Hitler who called it so.
wo7Y1 Today I learned laptops needed to be chunky back in the day before we minimized computers to the absolute minimum size.
R5YMQ TIL in the song 'The lion sleeps tonight' the word 'awimoweh' comes from Zulu language (South Africa) and was originally 'uyimbube', meaning 'you are a lion' (uyim = you are, mbube = lion)
W7aEA TIL that the single greatest concentration of shark attacks on human history took place when the USS Indianapolis was sunk by a Japanese submarine on 30 July 1945 and survivors were left in the water for four days, during which time around 600 men died of exposure, dehydration, and shark attacks.
9w1kX TIL in Suriname, people speak an English-based creole dating back when Suriname was part of England called Sranan Tongo. The language today adopted words from languages of cultures people came in contact with like the Dutch, Chinese, and Javanese.
nWP7P TIL Werner Herzog & Errol Morris once planned to dig up Ed Gein’s mother’s grave to see if he stole her corpse. Morris backed out
4kZEJ TIL that Olsen twins Mary Kate and Ashley who played the same character on Full House are NOT identical twins...
5Vae8 TIL Matt Stone and Trey Parker are not atheists contrary to the common South Park's fan's guess on their religious stance
x6Zeg TIL many animals, including dogs, display autism-like traits.
M78Vm TIL The Yagan language is the most recent language to die out completely, when its last native speaker, Abuela Cristina, died in 2022.
j6OPn TIL that a single Spaghetti is called a Spaghetto