› added 1 year ago

57

TIL 95% of Londoners live within 400m of a bus stop

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

dQb9 TIL almost all Koreans lack the gene that causes armpit odor therefore not requiring deodorant
Br0bk TIL during the meltdown, Chernobyl electrician Oleksander Lelechenko saved his younger colleagues from radiation exposure by walking through radioactive water three times to effect emergency repairs alone. He died in Kiev hospital less than 2 weeks after the disaster
v1NlK Today I learned the late, great voiceover god Peter Thomas of Forensic Files and numerous documentaries provided the voice of Philips brand Automated External Defibrillators. He said that Philips "wanted a voice that wouldn't scare people." Clearly they never watched Forensic Files alone at 3 AM!
5YBY8 TIL Yuba City, CA had a population of wild chickens. I encountered some of them today.
0wjmL TIL that in 2020 Poland extended an international flight ban list of 43 countries, including Andorra. However, Andorra was taken off the list after a short time because "Andorra does not have an international airport."