Home
Random
Trending
Today
1
posts added
Search
› added
1 year ago
117
TIL AI can replace AI engineer jobs too
Read more
github.com
via
reddit.com
v1x7r
TIL of the Edelweiss Pirates. A proto-hippie youth group in Germany which fought Nazi's as they frolicked through the countryside playing guitars and singing Anti-Nazi folk songs at campfires. They sheltered escaped concentration-camp prisoners and Allied soldiers in a program of armed resistance.
WklgN
TIL that in 2015, the city of Toronto took too long to pick a dead raccoon off the sidewalk so Torontoans made a memorial to it.
xw4b
TIL that Chicago Tribune staff accidentally discovered never seen before photos of the steamship Eastland that capsized in 1915 (3 years after Titanic disaster) off the coast of Chicago due to being top heavy and causing the ghastly death of 844 passengers
krW
TIL that H.G. Wells wrote the classic Sci-Fi novels; The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds in the space of just four years.
4krVb
TIL that the term and concept of "jay-walking" was introduced in the 1920's by the auto industry as part of a propaganda campaign to claim the roads for cars and shift the blame in accidents from cars to pedestrians. At the time "Jay" was a slur with a similar meaning to "redneck" or "hillbilly."