dDgX9 TIL about conservation induced extinctions, which are when the conservation of one species leads to the extinction of another. For example: the conservation of a species leads to the extinction of a parasite of said species.
KY1wG TIL that the extinction of the dusky seaside sparrow happened in 1987 at Disney World
a8b6M TIL about Baron Jean de Selys Longchamps's attack on the Gestapo headquarters in Brussels without it being cleared as part of the original mission.
Zpbx4 TIL: in 1964, while famous revolutionary Che Guevara was giving a speech to the UN general assembly, someone fired a bazooka at the building as a form of protest
786aO TIL there is a narrow-gauge mountain railway in Switzerland that is owned by a supermarket chain
kJb4d TIL your gums do not grow back after receding.
Eg7Z0 TIL Babylon is used in reggae music as a concept denoting the materialistic capitalist world. It is believed that Babylon actively seeks to exploit and oppress the people of the world, it is believed that the smoking of ganja was made illegal because this sacred herb opens minds to the truth.
Y7bkZ TIL the word “divorce” didn’t exist in Chinese until the 19th and early 20th centuries. Prior to that, the word most often used was “dissolved”. Men could dissolve a marriage under 7 specific conditions (ex: a lazy wife or a barren wife) while women had almost none.
BgYaW TIL Theodore John Kaczynski (UNABOMBER and Author of Industrial Society and Its Future) wrote and published three additional books, and a short story, while incarcerated at ADX Florence. Each of these books expanded on anti-technology sentiment of his manifesto and his new concerns for the future.
rNb1w TIL In 1865, the Empire of Mexico recruited 900 black Sudanese soldiers from Egypt under the belief that they had immunity to yellow fever. They did not.
NXJgP TIL that Rugrats had a newspaper comic strip from 1998 to 2003. It was so unpopular that readers of the Washington Post voted it the “worst comic strip.”
l7bn1 TIL that the 1990s sitcom Dinosaurs used the family name "Sinclair" as a nod to the real-world oil company Sinclair, which had a dinosaur as its mascot.