› added 2 years ago

97

TIL Mt. Everest grows by about 2 cm every year.

Read more theprint.in

via reddit.com

RpMQ TIL avalanche controllers at Sundance Ski Resort missed and blew up a house with a 105mm howitzer.
9bNp TIL that every military working dog is always one rank higher than its handler so that mistreatment of the dog is considered assault on an officer of higher rank.
KYQZR TIL the recently deposed leader of Niger is named Mohamed Bazoum!
QJle9 TIL that, in biology, any group of fish that stay together for social reasons are shoaling, and if the group is swimming in the same direction in a coordinated manner, they are schooling.
m1R0o TIL Genghis Khan would marry off a daughter to the king of an allied nation. Then he would assign his new son-in-law to military duty in the Mongol wars, while his daughter took over the rule. Most sons-in-law died in combat, giving his daughters complete control of these nations