› added 4 years ago

923

TIL In 2013 It snowed in Egypt

Read more english.alarabiya.net

via reddit.com

VX7p TIL that some of the polar ice sheets on Mars are bigger than Los Angeles and could be used as fresh water sources.
WR14 TIL Ants conduct war in ways similar to humans - they even use more advanced strategies like reconnaissance and sending expendable ants to the front line as to preserve the stronger ones.
Z8A8B TIL the metropolitan areas of New York City, Los Angeles and Miami contain nearly a quarter of the world's Jews.
MJkB TIL: in 1914 Daniel Hess refused to sell the last bit of his property to the city of New York after the rest his property had been seized via eminent domain, and today it remains on the sidewalk with a tile that reads “Property of the Hess Estate Which Has Never Been Dedicated For Public Purposes”
XEDZ8 TIL in the late 1800s Australian surveyors had realised the two tallest mountains, Mt. Kosciuszko and Mt. Townsend, were mismeasured, and in fact Mt. Townsend was taller. Instead of rewriting many textbooks the NSW government decided to switch the two names, leaving us with what we have today.