› added 9 years ago

97

TIL Giga-Pets were banned in Iceland, Thailand, and Canada for being a distraction, as children were constantly worrying about the wellbeing of their digital pets

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

m1GVv TIL that there are more bacteria living in your mouth right now than there are human beings living on the planet.
d8Agj TIL that in 2015 a huge 2100 foot (640 meters) wide human skull-faced asteroid, nicknamed the “Halloween Asteroid”, zoomed past Earth on Halloween. It completes one rotation every 2.94 hours, and will be seen again in November this year.
JVW4 TIL Alexander the Great once asked Diogenes, a homeless Greek philosopher who lived in a barrel, if there was something he could do for him. Diogenes replied “yes, get out of my sun”. Alexander left saying, “If I wasn’t Alexander, I’d like to be Diogenes.”
5Vr8r TIL that the Library of Alexandria was not burned once and cataclysmically destroyed, but instead declined gradually over the course of several centuries.
P6oZ TIL the Soviets suffered more casualties at the Battle of Stalingrad than the Americans did for the entirety of World War 2.