› added 4 years ago

287

TIL about Kintsugi, a Japanese art form in which broken bowls are repaired with gold. The gold signifies the beauty of repairing things after they are broken.

Read more nbcnews.com

via reddit.com

7rXB7 TIL after a cremation, you don’t get “ash” back. They take leftover bones and pulverize it into a powder
LlLp TIL NASA plans to lasso an asteroid and drag it to the moon for astronauts to walk on.
b9ymj TIL that Italian is often the second language of most older native Italians, and while the locals are said to speak different, they actually predate modern Italian which became the national language in 1861. The “dialects” are often so different that locals can’t understand the other dialects
Lkwpm TIL South Africa has three capital cities, one for each of the three branches of government.
0J7N TIL In 1995 a Marine fell overboard his ship unnoticed. He survived by treading water for 3 days until a Pakistani fishing boat found him.