VBOx4 TIL Coca Cola released a German advert celebrating the 75th anniversary of Fanta’s 1940 founding in Nazi Germany. Before it got pulled, it stated it wanted to “bring the feeling of the good old times back.”
X0VWj TIL The Sun is made of Plasma
OG4p7 TIL that in 2002 a strain of Cordyceps/Beauveria infected an immunocompromised woman in Germany despite the fungus being considered incapable of tolerating the temperature of the human body
691Zm TIL that Natural Spirit charges $2 for a single can of their sparkling water but charges $12 for four of them.
woya6 TIL of the burials of Hawaiian chiefs and Sacred burial Practices of the Ancient Native Hawaiians
R5WA9 TIL Illinois holds about 1/8 of all nuclear waste in the USA, by far the most for a state, about 10k tons.
W7Xnd TIL Max Planck opposed the atomic theory until the 1890s
9w5G7 TIL A raunchy adult joke book was a bestseller during the 80s!
nWyRB TIL That the Smoky Mountains are home to a temperate rainforest on a section of the mountains near Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Worldwide, this is a very rare ecosystem that is not experienced by many other locations on earth.
4kmYo TIL that in 2013, a man tried to dribble a football from Seattle to Brazil to promote a charity. He was run over and killed by a truck just 250 miles into his 10,000-mile trip
epyJk Today I learned of Cuxirimay Ocllo, who was the cousin and concubine to the final Incan Emperor Atahualpa. Following Atahualpa's execution, she became the concubine to Francisco Pizarro. She outlived Pizarro as well and married a man compiling the history of the Spanish conquest of the Inca.
X0VW6 TIL Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn, also known as Yayōsu, was a Dutch navigator who became one of the first known Western samurai and the only Dutch samurai in history. He was an advisor and interpreter to the shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu, and there is an area in Tokyo named after him.