› added 4 years ago

689

TIL: There are wild hamsters

Read more kids.nationalgeographic.com

via reddit.com

W6po TIL that when the Nazi Party held its first book burnings, one of the works destroyed was an 1821 play by Heinrich Heine containing the famous line: “Where they burn books, they will in the end also burn people.”
AQwB TIL that a war cry used by the Finnish Army during WW2 was “Tulta munille!” which roughly translates to “Fire at their balls!”
L8wr TIL Crocodile gender is based off the temperature of their nest. Below 31.7 degrees Celsius is a female, and above 31.7 degrees Celsius is a male.
xVQ7D TIL that the first aircraft autopilot was developed in 1912 and demonstrated in 1914 - and in 1947 a transatlantic flight, including takeoff and landing, was made completely under autopilot control
96kB TIL: The World Wide Web is 22 today.