› added 11 months ago

42

TIL Linkin Park initially wanted to be called Lincoln Park, but they changed the spelling so they could acquire the linkinpark.com domain

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

a8gW9 TIL that dingos are considered by many to be a distinct species, Canis dingo. Making it the only native terrestrial animal in the order Carnivora.
rkv1 TIL: The most expensive yacht in the world is a gold-plated super-yacht worth $4.5 billion USD. It comes complete with a statue made from the bone of a T-Rex dinosaur
KOjgQ TIL If you sit at one place for hours (students, employees, truck drivers etc.), you have the risk of developing heart disease, obesity, diabetes, dementia, anxiety, indigestion, bad knees, cancer, bad back and it can shorten your life, EVEN if you workout several hours a day.
jP4R Today I Learned that Steve Gunderson was the only Republican to vote against DOMA in 1996, and he was the first openly gay Republican in the US House
4kaZw TIL that when Kissinger publicly threatened "countermeasures" in a press conference, during the Oil Crisis, if the OAPEC embargo was not lifted, the Saudis responded with threatening further oil cuts and to burn their oil fields if the US military invaded.