› added 3 years ago

161

TIL about the Montreal Protocol of 1987, which is the only environmental treaty signed by every country in the world to stop the depletion of the ozone layer. Thanks to the treaty, 98% of ozone-depleting substances have been phased out and 2 million people are saved from skin cancer each year.

Read more unep.org

via reddit.com

JYvAQ TIL Kanye West has found success as a fashion designer—but he was actually rejected from studying at the world’s most famous fashion school, Central Saint Martins, because he’s “too famous.”
gwKL TIL of Hanlon’s Razor, an adage that describes people’s tendency to suspect intentional wrongdoing rather than carelessness: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
jK4p TIL that six years of work by one man, underwater and in total darkness, saved Winchester Cathedral from collapse.
P1MWe TIL that Haiti and Lichtenstein showed up to the 1936 Olympics with the exact same flag, which they had both been using for decades without knowledge of the similarity
X0pNQ TIL of Sweating Sickness. A mysterious illness that has only been recorded in England between 1485 and 1551 and seemed to affect almost exclusively wealthy men in their 30’s and 40’s. Death would usually occur mere hours after the onset of symptoms. It is unknown what it was.