› added 5 years ago

83

TIL that huge shares of Tencent is not owned by chinese, but by a company in Europe, which is inturn owned by a South African MNC.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

epPyn TIL that a Japanese laboratory designed a robot to win rock paper scissors with a 100% success rate
OGjNe TIL of the Annecy shootings, where 3 members of a British family and a passing cyclist were shot to death in rural south-eastern France. Despite identification of the weapon, the perpetrator remains unknown, with investigations referencing the "sensitive" nature of the father's work as a motive.
Egev7 TIL the Purple Earth Hypothesis proposes that the Earth's surface biosphere may have appeared purple in the past due to photosynthesis at the time being based on simpler retinal instead of more complex chlorophyll
j6j4a TIL Jerry Springer was born in a London Underground station that was being used as a bomb shelter during WWII.
QNvn9 TIL that whales are distant relatives of the hippopotamus