› added 3 years ago

198

TIL the 2019 collapse of the Thomas Cook travel agency triggered UK's largest peacetime repatriation. Called Operation Matterhorn, over 140,000 British tourists were recovered with 150 aircraft in 746 flights. During that time, the UK government briefly was UK's 5th largest airline

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

NwJ1 TIL PCP is a lower schedule drug than cannabis.
l7x8G TIL all foreign and domestic students can study for free at public German universities regardless of what country you're from!
8aMyV TIL a polar bear's outer layer of fur isn't white, each hair is actually a hollow and completely transparent tube. The fur only appears white because of the reflection of the sun and unlike most arctic mammals, they do not shed their coat in the summer in order to maintain camouflage.
9w79X TIL the idea of continental drift wasn't widely accepted in the scientific community until the 1960s. This is ~40 years after quantum mechanics was solidified in the 5th Solvay Conference (1927)!
NXkeM TIL that in the sport of Bowling, you can only call separated pins a split if the #1 ball has been knocked down first.