› added 10 months ago

53

TIL that in 1986 a limnic eruption caused a toxic gas cloud of CO2 to be released from Lake Nyos. The cloud traveled downhill at 30mph and killed 1,786 people nearly instantly. People have since moved back to the area, and scientists believe it is only a matter of time before this could happen again

Read more youtu.be

via reddit.com

80ba TIL the script of Breakin Bad has been sold to a colombian production. They remade it scene by scene with new actors and in spanish. Metastasi.
kxn4 TIL Edwin H. Armstrong the inventor of the FM radio committed suicide because he was spending 90% of his time on litigation against RCA who were trying to suppress the technology.
16wk7 TIL that there are only about 30 Ancient Egyptian obelisks left standing worldwide—and Italy has more than Egypt.
nVdb TIL An tribe of Asian pygmies called the Taron are purposely letting themselves go extinct. They are a pure and isolated race, but inbreeding has caused deformities and mental issues that have prompted their decision to die out and have thusly dwindled down to 12.
v1NW8 TIL the Turkish Straits crisis was an opening salvo of the Cold War, as the Soviet Union tried to take over two key channels in order to control Black Sea naval traffic. Stalin threatened to invade Turkey from the Balkans, prompting the Truman Doctrine of capitalist aid that put the country in NATO