› added 4 years ago

183

TIL that after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Ukraine claimed that it's military-trained dolphins chose to patriotically go on strike rather than cooperate with the Russian invaders.

Read more theguardian.com

via reddit.com

D100J TIL: Sucking a King's nipples was an ancient Irish form of submission. Cutting off a royal descendant's nipples made him ineligible for kingship.
PYx0G TIL Alice Lloyd College in Kentucky offers free tuition to students working at least 10 hours a week & free room and board to students working 15 hours per week
e5dL TIL in Far Cry 4, if you take the main villain at their word and wait at a table for about 13 minutes for them to return, you can beat the game without even picking up a weapon.
x6Vm7 TIL that every major thing The Beatles did happened in a time span of less than nine years. The band played its first show at The Cavern Club in February 1961, and John Lennon informed the band that he would quit in September 1969.
Z8bLG TIL there is a chinese village called Dafen that account for 60% of global production of replica oil paintings.