› added 8 years ago

182

TIL that the original LGBT Rainbow Flag had eight colored stripes including hot pink and turquoise stripes. The high cost of manufacturing the flags helped lead to the current six color flag.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

N7mYM TIL that huge shares of Tencent is not owned by chinese, but by a company in Europe, which is inturn owned by a South African MNC.
N78PQ TIL of the Duga Radar in Chernobyl, Ukraine. Part of the USSR's missile early warning system, it is also served as part of the inspiration for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. seris of videogames
6EvN7 TIL that in 1978, Reinhold Messner reached the summit of Mt Everest without using supplementary oxygen, a task which had previously been considered impossible. Two years later, he did it again by himself, completing the first solo ascent of the mountain
M7bd8 TIL that average salary of an engineer in Pyongyang is $2 a month + up to $50 in bonuses and about 600 grams of rice and corn. It’s half of that in other NK cities (interview with top NK expert, timestamp - 2:03:06)
Kdka TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger only spoke 74 words in The Terminator.