9wXDB TIL that putting spaces between words only started in the 7th century in Ireland
nWMLd TIL the Dujiangyan was originally constructed around 256 BC by the State of Qin and is part of the "three great hydraulic engineering projects of the Qin" for irrigation and flood control project which is still in use today.
4kWDb TIL Caesar salad was invented in a Tijuana, Mexico restaurant when a Fourth of July rush in 1924 depleted the kitchen's supplies. Chef Caesar Cardini, an Italian restauranteur, made do with what he had, adding the dramatic flair of table-side tossing by the chef.
x6n40 TIL that out of over 1,000 athletes sanctioned for doping violations in one study, only 1.4% appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and of those appeals, only ONE was filed by an athlete themselves
5VRDD TIL that there is an island (Santa Cruz del Islote) the size of a football (soccer) field with +800 people living on it
M7pPB TIL: about Nüshu, a chinese script exclusively used by women, that was almost lost after texts were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.
j6bLp TIL that a species of wasp, Neuroterus valhalla, was first discovered on the campus of Rice University. It was named in honor of the campus pub.
0dxQM TIL that the Portuguese man o' war is not a jellyfish but a colonial organism known as a Siphonophore.
grbL7 TIL that a Ming dynasty general named Zheng He overthrew a kingdom in modern day Sri Lanka during a naval expedition.
LQGev TIL that in 1988, a Brazilian man hijacked a plane, intending to crash it at the Presidential Palace in Brasília, due to the poor economic situation the country was in at the time. The tragedy was averted by the pilot, who did two acrobatic maneuvers to make the hijacker lose balance.
b6bL4 TIL: the Debatable Lands where a law less area between Scotland and England ruled by “river clans” until the late 1500s
QN5r9 Today I learned that bees can recognize human faces. Their brains are tiny but they use something similar to how we process patterns, so they can actually remember and pick out a face they’ve seen before.