› added 1 week ago

2

TIL: The bodies of two women were discovered over a year after the eruption of Mount St. Helens, but they were both actually victims of murder prior to the eruption whose bodies were hidden to the debris and ash.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

EgPkp TIL: Researchers are attempting to use AI to decode the language of dolphins. Their goal of eventually being able to reverse engineer a way for humans to translate their own language into dolphin speak. This would effectively facilitate interspecies communication for the very first time.
Zpa8Q TIL that the former head of the United Mine Workers of America had his former opponent and family killed on 12/31/69.
WDGN TIL that the US now uses less water than it did in 1970
Mj0 TIL Italian soccer player Mario Balotelli supposedly paid for 24 homeless to stay in the Hilton for New Year’s
QJKwk TIL when China leased to Britain the New Territories of Hong Kong in 1898, British diplomat Claude MacDonald secured a 99-year lease only because he thought 'it was good as forever'. Britain did not think they would ever have to give the territories back.