› added 10 months ago

319

TIL that it rains diamonds on Uranus and Neptune.

Read more space.com

via reddit.com

BE5W TIL 50 richest Chinese Congress delegates control $94.7 billion, while top 50 US congress only have $1.6B. US politicians are “paupers” by Chinese standards.
RrO7 TIL that during WWI, at one point skirmishing Russian and German forces had to declare a temporary truce to fight off a sudden onslaught of wolves that were making regular raids on trenches. The joint operation was successful.
Z87E4 TIL a startup is teaching crows to pick up cigarette butts from city streets
d7Zj TIL a father pretending to fall in the Grand Canyon to scare his daughter actually then fell 400 feet.
B9My TIL that due to falling birthrates, many Japanese companies offer bonuses for having more kids. The telecom company Softbank offers bonuses ranging from $400 for the first child to $40,000 for the fifth.