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TIL A South Pacific Tribe worship and believe airplanes are there Messiah after receiving supplies from airplanes during WW2

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O6oX TIL of a video game series called Deer Avenger. It is a parody of Deer Hunter, but you play as a deer hunting humans.
OG4e4 Today I learned there are 5 countries that are both in Europe AND Asia; Russia, Georgia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan.
rdw TIL that the Health Minister of South Africa who served for 9 years, actively promoted the treatment of AIDS with garlic, beetroot and African potatoes, while claiming that Anti Retroviral drugs don’t work.
5bN9 TIL there is a light bulb in California that has been almost continuously burning since 1901, and has been cited as evidence of planned obsolescence in modern technology.
l1DV TIL there is a 15 million year gap in the fossil record called “Romer’s Gap”