› added 2 years ago

54

TIL that there exists a Peruvian political movement called Ethnocacerism, an ultranationalist indigenous movement that seeks to restore the borders of the Incan Empire. It was founded by the father of former Peruvian president Ollanta Humala.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

KYw19 TIL Dry cleaning isn't dry at all and is only called dry because it uses chemical solvents instead of water
yVWla Today I learned that if you collapse an underwater bubble with a sound wave, light is produced, and the mechanism has not been figured out.
awPEN TIL that there is only one Jew left in Afghanistan, Zabulon Simentov, who runs his own synagogue. The second-to-last Jew, who hated Simentov, also ran his own synagogue. The two hated interacting with each other so much that the Taliban released them after they kept fighting in custody.
R5WZ4 TIL The African continent is being split in two by a 46 km (35 mile) long crack and will be two seperate land massess in a couple of million years.
4koOa TIL there was a deadlier martime disaster than the Titanic: the Sultana. Carrying 6 times the passengers than it was alotted, the Sultana sank on the Mississippi river killing over 1,100 Union Soldiers. The tragedy did not receive much attention as it was days after the assassination of Lincoln.