› added 3 years ago

285

TIL that most plastic isn’t actually recyclable

Read more npr.org

via reddit.com

R7wv6 TIL the bubonic plague killed an estimated 200 million people and it took Eurasia 200 years to recover lost population
kODJd TIL Sea mines off the coast of North Vietnam exploded spontaneously all at once; the cause, not determined until decades later, was a solar flare
E1Yod TIL Anne Frank has a tampon named after her in Japan, and because the enthusiasm she displayed in her diary about getting her first period shattered a cultural taboo, the Japanese refer to a woman's first day of menstruation as “Anne’s Day”.
6Ex6Q TIL that to clean out the sewer pipes that tended to block, the mayor of the city of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe instituted a synchronized flush. Residents who did not comply were fined.
womeE TIL that in Soviet-occupied Estonia, 1980's TV show Dallas became popular on modified TV's when it aired in Finland. Thousands of people would drive to the northern tip of Estonia just to watch the show.