› added 5 years ago

204

TIL Chinese and Japanese people are superstitious about numbers, particularly the number four, which is considered unlucky because it sounds like the word for “death.” In California, Chinese and Japanese Americans with chronic heart disease are 27% more likely to die on the 4th day of a given month

Read more psmag.com

via reddit.com

9YWYD TIL that the world's oldest dog lived to the age of 29 years and 5 months
nxNY TIL that exercise can be just as powerful as anti-depressants when treating depression
d9Bd TIL that after LeBron James left Cleveland for Miami in 2010, his posters were marked down and sold for $17.41 in reference to the year the American traitor Benedict Arnold was born.
Oogma TIL that traditional forest management used a sustainable method of wood harvesting called "coppicing" that would involve cutting a young tree to the stump, and harvesting the shoots in 7-20 years. One square km of coppiced land used produces enough heat for 100 homes a year.
07Oy TIL British empire, “the empire on which the sun never sets”, was the largest empire in history. By 1922 it held sway over about 458 million people, one-fifth of the world’s population at the time. The empire covered more than 13,012,000 sq mi, almost a quarter of the Earth’s total land area.