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TIL of the concept of agnoiology - the study of ignorance

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KONra TIL the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster could have been even more catastrophic, but 2000 workers at the sister Fukushima II Plant succeeded in stabilizing their reactors and achieving cold shut down.
ArXn TIL that ESPN’s Mike Tirico once sent harassing emails to a female producer, then later confronted her saying, “If I was single, I would throw you on the table right here and fuck your brains out.” He then proceeded to follow her in his car for miles down I-84 before she took an exit in a panic
ODLe TIL Amazon and Congo were likely one river before Africa and S.America drifted apart.
kbQB TIL there is a tree in Europe that is alive since 941, when the Byzantine Empire was at its peak.
9LG6 TIL Alexis Ohanian said about Digg v4 “You chose to grow with venture capital… this new version of digg reeks of VC meddling. It’s cobbling together features from more popular sites and departing from the core of digg, which was to “give the power back to the people.”