› added 12 years ago

299

TIL adding “&gl=CA” to the end of a YouTube URL dramatically improves buffer speed.

Read more youtube.com

via reddit.com

oBWwA TIL Flexitarianism / Semi-Vegitarianism is a movement trying to encourage people to eat more plant based diets without going strict anti-meat etc.
69rjm TIL of the Pacific Mandrone Tree (Arbutus menziesii). Native to Western Coastal North America, it has a flakey deep orange-red bark which gives the appearance that the tree is molting.
9YBAr TIL Henry ( Hank) J. Deutschendorf, twin and one of the babies who played Oscar in Ghostbusters 2 committed suicide in 2017 due to his struggles with mental illness.
MyRB TIL in the 80s, the first trawling fishermen caught orange roughy fish - the subsequent boom without restrictions has pushed them to the brink of extinction because we didn’t realise they’re each hundred years old
KYdd6 TIL Margaret of Provence, queen consort of France, was the only woman to ever lead a crusade, when her husband was captured and she was in charge of his army and the negotiations to rescue him.