› added 8 months ago

19

TIL about Giant Rock, a 7-story high freestanding boulder in the Mojave Desert. It's purported to be the largest freestanding boulder in the world.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

N8Bb TIL at the Edinburgh Zoo there is a voluntary daily penguin parade, which sometimes gets cancelled if the penguins do not wish to go out that day.
e6XJ TIL that the peak federal minimum wage in the US in 1968 and would be worth about $10.70 in today’s dollars. The current US minimum wage is $7.25.
KQgE TIL French Emperor Napoleon wore poison around his neck in case of defeat. When he finally used it in 1814, it had lost its strength and only made him painfully ill.
oBNpL TIL that every year, 25 million pounds of Mardi Gras beads are distributed in New Orleans, and the plastic beads contain toxic levels of lead, bromine, arsenic, phthalate plasticizers, halogens, cadmium, chromium, mercury and chlorine.
lA51 TIL Nazi war criminals are still being tracked down in the US. The most recent Poland requested the extradition of 98-year-old Minnesota man Michael Karkoc, who is believed by authorities to have been a commander of a Nazi-led unit that was responsible for war crimes during World War II.