LQGr0 TIL the reason "Japanese Bonus Tracks" were so common was because CD and Album production was more expensive in Japan. Bonus Tracks were an incentive for Japanese consumers to not import the cheaper foreign editions.
b6bDZ TIL The Virginia Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which imposed a "one drop rule" to count as colored, permitted up to 1/16 American Indian ancestry because the Virginia elites liked to claim descent from Pocahontas
QN57k TIL about the Melungeon. A mixed raced people from colonial era found in Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina. They have European, Black, Native American, and East India backgrounds. Many pass as Whites as their ancestors did.
ANBRa TIL villagers on a South Korean island celebrated the birthday of an 800-year-old ginkgo tree that has a 'wife' in North Korea
yV9Xe TIL that in China ‘pretend work’ firms exist where unemployed people pay US$4 a day to sit at desks and pretend to work in an office.
m1bGY TIL 60% of the global cocoa supply comes from Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, where more than 1.5 million children work on cocoa farms.
DQkOe TIL Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss Etched onto the Normandy Beaches the Human Silhouettes of 9,000 Fallen Soldiers to Commemorate Peace Day in 2013. It was called ‘The Fallen 9,000’.
vPxwR TIL that "McLaren", the man (Bruce), the car company, and the Formula 1 team should actually be named "Howie"; "McLaren" was an assumed name taken by his great grandfather from an Australian wine region to conceal his old life.
J1ol1 TIL In the 1964 Olympics the downhill ski race at Innsbruck was won by E. Zimmerman with a time of 2:18.16. Twelve years later at the same run at Innsbruck the gold was won by Franz Klammer with 1:45.73, beating the old record by over 32 seconds! Often called one of the greatest ski runs in history
pYjx8 TIL about the Green Bank Observatory, home to the world's largest & most sensitive radio telescope. Green Bank, West Virginia is located in what is known as the 'Quiet Zone', the only area in the US where mobile phones, WiFi, & microwave ovens are prohibited so as not to interfere with the telescope
GAae1 TIL Japanese soldiers bayonetted children in Nanking, practiced bayonet charges on live prisoners.
164kP TIL that airport runways are numbered based on their compass direction. Runway 27 literally means 270 degrees (west).