› added 4 months ago

14

TIL about the Mimizuka. A monument dedicated to the 40,000 noses cut from Korean faces and brought to the Taiko Toyotomi Hideyoshi by his soldiers during the Imjin War

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

VBLB4 TIL about the atlantropa, a gigantic engineering and colonisation idea that was devised by the German architect Herman Sörgel in the 1920s, and promoted by him until his death in 1952. The project was devised to contain several hydroelectric dams in key points of the Mediterranean Sea.
JJbV TIL that Argentinian special forces tried to destroy a UK ship during the Falklands War, but were foiled by a rental car salesperson.
Yp8Nx TIL Pluto was discovered in 1930. It takes around 248 years to complete one orbit around the sun. Since its discovery it still has not even made one complete orbit.
d8vMr TIL the US Military Subsidized in Part Iron Man 1 and 2
D1WWV TIL: All of the world's four deepest caves are in located in Abkhazia. The record-holder is Veryovkina Cave, which goes down at least 1.3 miles. Due to the hazards and need for specialized rope techniques, "the round trip —top to bottom and back— takes professional speleologists about a week."