› added 2 months ago

14

TIL About 40% of New York 9/11 victims' remains have yet to be identified

Read more axios.com

via reddit.com

W79ao TIL that in 2009, after Steve Irwin's death, a new species of snail was named after him in honor of his memory: The Crikey Steveirwini. 🐌
Wy1L TIL Native Americans used to eat soil to counteract the toxins in acorns and potatoes (before domesticated)
Rdn1 TIL that during the Nazi occupation of France, the Nazis didn’t remove the American flag flying over the Marquis de Lafayette’s grave
6ERQY TIL The four rings in the Audi logo represent the four companies of the Auto Union - Audi, Horch, Wanderer and DKW. Horch for high-end luxury cars, Audi for deluxe cars, Wanderer stuck with standard mid-size cars and DKW decided to go with small cars and motorcycles.
x65p1 TIL that one time Britain took revenge on a huge fatberg blocking London's sewers by turning it into biodiesel. The 2017 fatberg weighed 130 tons and was over 250 meters (820 ft) long, consisting of fat, oil, grease, and trash like "flushable" wipes which hardened into a sewer blockage.