› added 1 month ago

8

TIL there was a Japanese troop transport ship called Montreal Maru and it was sunk during the Aleutian Islands Campaign, the only campaign of WW2 fought on North American soil

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

EMRV TIL That Emma Watson is set to appear topless in her next movie, ‘Regression’, which releases on August 15, 2015.
WkZ6N TIL Swedish elk (moose to North Americans) get drunk on fermenting apples and sometimes get stuck in trees
PDve TIL there are certain sporting events which legally have to be broadcast on ‘free to air’ channels in the United Kingdom.
PeG TIL The fake flames on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney are so convincing that the Anaheim Fire Department requested that they be automatically turned off in case of fire so firefighters can fight the real blaze and not waste time battling artificial ones.
8ebKK TIL that when Dan Shechtman discovered quasiperiodic crystals in 1982, he got mocked and shamed. Nobel prize winner Linus Pauling spoke of the discovery, saying "There is no such thing as quasicrystals, only quasi-scientists." In 2011 Shechtman won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery.