› added 1 year ago

104

TIL Australia bans instagram users from seeing how many likes they get

Read more abc.net.au

via reddit.com

neNVo TIL in 1972, President Richard Nixon called Miami Dolphins head coach Don Shula before the Super Bowl and recommended he run a certain play. The week prior, he reportedly did the same thing with the Washington Redskins. Both teams ran the plays he suggested; both plays failed. Both teams lost.
rNVMx TIL: The Mercator projection creates increasing distortions of size as you move away from the equator (the Greenland problem). Greenland appears to be the same size as Africa, yet Africa's land mass is actually fourteen times larger.
4kVQ6 TIL, when Disneyland opened in 1955, the cost of admission was $1 (which is $11 adjusted for inflation in 2022)
0dk4p TIL The way a survey is conducted can skew the results. However, there are still a lot of people that think chocolate milk comes from brown cows.
loyXr TIL Madame Nhu, Catholic first lady of South Vietnam (sister-in-law of unmarried President Diem), publicly responded to monk Thich Quang Duc's self immolation with "Let them burn & we shall clap our hands," insulting many among the Buddhist majority. Her father, ambassador to the US, disowned her.