› added 2 years ago

95

TIL that sometimes physicists use the supernatural in their hypothetical thought experiments in the form of demons.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

P6ag TIL of The Dire Wolf Project, a project to breed German Shepherds to resemble dire wolves. It started in 1988 and focuses first on health and temperament. They are enormous, scary, shaggy and, by all accounts, terribly sweet.
P8oO TIL Dick Cheney joked that his wife thinks comparisons between himself and Darth Vader ‘humanize’ him.
JYJQV TIL the words ebony, ivory, lily, and oasis originate from Egyptian through Greek and sometimes Latin
mKkE TIL that Emiratis only make up 13% of their own country’s population. Since it takes 20 years of residency to obtain UAE citizenship, 87% of the population remains expatriates.
0XeA TIL that with the aim of launching guerrilla operations against the Chinese, the CIA funded the Dalai Lama $1.7 million a year in the 1960s