› added 1 year ago

213

TIL, Australia was not a paradise for women and children pre-colonialism. Absolutely heartbreaking article.

Read more quadrant.org.au

via reddit.com

vP8W4 TIL on November 12, 1833, there was a meteor shower so intense that it was described as meteors "falling like snowflakes". It was so intense that it was thought to be the end of the world, but at the same time it gave birth to the study of meteor astronomy.
woYEY TIL time seems to only flow in one direction at the macroscopic level but that is not the case at the microscopic level. This phenomenon is known as the "arrow of time paradox" and it's one of the many unsolved problems in physics.
R7kb7 TIL the mafia in New York City stole around $1billion dollars a year in the 1980s simply by evading gasoline taxes through a scheme where they created fake gas stations
wL6N8 TIL scientists have been shining a light billions of times brighter than the sun through rolled-up, burned Roman papyrus fragments in an attempt to decipher the writing
8apdV TIL for his role in FernGully Robin Williams provided 14 hours worth of improvised lines for the part which was originally only supposed to be an 8-minute role