› added 5 months ago

22

TIL the Walt Disney Company tried to trademark the name “Seal Team 6” the day after the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

x6amo TIL that a blow to the chest at a very specific moment of the heart’s rhythm, can result in immediate cardiac arrest. The blow doesn’t even need to be enough to cause physical injury. (Repost cos my last post got deleted)
8ee7G TIL about “Bonin English” — a dialect that is an English/Japanese fusion, spoken on the Ogasawara Islands. Previously uninhabited, the islands’ first modern inhabitants were anglophones in the 19th century. The islands went back and forth between the UK, US, and Japan. Today, they are part of Japan.
nWy9r TIL the idea of a "World Turtle" is centuries old, inspiring the Discworld novel series, as well as the phrase "turtles all the way down"
Y8rZ TIL that in Germany, Rice Krispies go ‘Knisper! Knasper! Knusper!’ and in Mexico, they go 'Pim! Pam! Pum!’ rather than 'Snap! Crackle! Pop!’. In each country they make a different sound!
YpvoG TIL young cattle were called "dogies" because motherless calves look potbellied, being unable to digest grass yet. Dough-guts -> Dogies