› added 7 years ago

85

TIL The isolated territory in France called ‘Zone Rouge’ is estimated to take no fewer than 700 years to completely clean due to shells, chemicals, remains, and other waste from World War 1.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

YpMGv TIL of Saitō Musashibō Benkei, a Japanese warrior who is said to have killed in excess of 300 trained soldiers by himself while defending a bridge. He was so fierce in close quarters that his enemies were forced to kill him with a volley of arrows. He died standing upright.
xVpZk TIL Greenland has four distinct Time Zones that cross its boundaries but the country is broken up into UTC0, UTC-1, UTC-3 and UTC-4. UTC-2 is only used during daylight savings. UTC0 is outside the country but the weather station Danmarkshavn, is set to European time for ease of reporting.
vA7K TIL the often-quoted idiom “seeing is believing” leaves out half of the original sentence. The full quote from 17th century English clergyman, Thomas Fuller, is “Seeing is believing, but feeling is the truth.”
1aGr TIL humans were almost certainly deep-sea fishing over 42,000 years ago.
MX8a TIL a stray dog in Afghanistan saved 50 American soliders. A Facebook group raised $21,000 to bring the dogs back to the US and reunite them with the soldiers.