› added 1 year ago

48

TIL the Dewey Decimal system reserves 999 for history of "extraterrestrial worlds"

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

4XwGg TIL Hermann Göring's brother strongly opposed the Nazi party, and forged his brother's signature so people could leave the country. Once, he joined Jews who had to scrub the streets, so the SS officer stopped the activity in order not to humiliate Hermann Göring.
ADYo7 TIL that the world's oldest known dildo is a siltstone 20-centimeter phallus from the Upper Palaeolithic period 30,000 years ago that was found in Hohle Fels Cave near Ulm, Germany.
Br1we TIL Sharks have rush hour too: a study found that shark traffic on major routes around Palmyra Atoll peaked between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m
KY8ea TIL: No resident in China goes unwatched!
lvdB TIL the doctor who ran the famous gender identity study on identical twin boys where one was raised as a girl falsified his data for 30 years, and that the boy never actually accepted his female identity