› added 10 years ago

122

TIL: Now that Japan has ceased whaling, Norway kills more whales than any other country.

Read more us.whales.org

via reddit.com

R7do8 TIL that the Winter Soldier’s theme contains a slowed and filtered version of Bucky’s scream during his death in Captain America: The First Avenger. You can even hear Steve yell, “Bucky!” (albeit heavily modified).
p895Q TIL that the Pink Triangle, a symbol for gay pride, was originally used to denote homosexuals in concentration camps. Because the symbol also identified other “sexual undesirables,” gay men were often left imprisoned when Allied troops liberated others from the camps.
NXGK6 TIL as of 2019, the richest 26 people in the world own as much assets as the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of the planet’s population.
xolD TIL that under UK law, a woman cannot commit rape.
N8wN TIL that “rods” and “hogshead” are actual measurement units, and when Grandpa Simpson claims his car “gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that’s the way I like it”, he’s boasting about getting just shy of 0.002 MPG.