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Oo44L TIL: Scientists have thought the melting and forming of ice sheets around the world changed the distribution of mass around the planet enough to shift the polar axis. Since 2000, the Earth's axis has jumped eastward by about 7 inches a year”
16OE8 TIL Post war Japan is basically the reason why Mecha anime exist in Japan, because it reflected Japan's desire to rebuild Japan after WW2.
xpo5 TIL that when the invading Prussians banned Danish people from flying their flags, they spent years breeding the red-and-white striped “Danish Protest Pig” as the ultimate passive-aggressive display. It is still extant today, though there are only 140 examples and it is officially a rare breed.
691Z TIL that movie theaters have been banned in Saudi Arabia since the 1980s.
8a74V TIL that Sen Daniel Inouye lost his arm in WWII while holding a grenade. He pried the still-live grenade out of his severed hand, used it to kill a German solider, then kept shooting with his one remaining arm.