› added 6 years ago

217

TIL Japan does not accept signatures on official documents (banks, real estate and business) but require a ‘hanko’ which is an official carved wooden or stone seal pressed in ink

Read more nippon.com

via reddit.com

8eJPb TIL about wheel-well stowaways, individuals who hide in the landing gear compartments of planes. Between 1947 and 2015, the FAA recorded 113 such attempts, with a staggering 76% fatality rate. Most stowaways were young men, and many remain unidentified.
j6oOa TIL, In 1731, the Dey of Algiers presented King Frederick I of Sweden with a lion, one of the first lions in Scandinavia. When the lion died, the king sent it to a taxidermist. However, because he had never seen a lion before the taxidermy was poorly performed, resulting in a comically deformed face
VBoZB TIL: Darude, the DJ who wrote Sandstorm, was thrown out of a club for not playing Sandstorm.
ep44J TIL that the Zodiac Killer supposedly wrote a complaint to the San Francisco Chronicle that the 1973 movie "Badlands" was "murder-glorification" and asked the paper to cut it's advertisements
p8RkA TIL The deepest part of our oceans, the region from below 6000 km to the very bottom of the deepest sea trench, is known as the Hadal zone, named after Hades, the underworld of Greek mythology. More people have been to the moon than have explored the Hadal deep.