› added 8 years ago

158

TIL that after Germany's openly-gay Foreign Minister called the president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko "Europe's last dictator", Lukashenko responded that it was "better to be a dictator than gay".

Read more euronews.com

via reddit.com

LkYW9 TIL Canadians say “sorry” so much that a law was passed in 2009 declaring that an apology can’t be used as evidence of admission to guilt.
kQgW TIL Bananas release one positron every 75 minutes. The antimatter equivalent of electrons. This is due to decaying potassium-40.
16WV8 TIL Lego was flirting with bankruptcy, and the release of Bionicle, which accounted for 100% of their profits in 2003, saved them from going under.
Wpy9 TIL that in 1936 a patent for a “flying saucer” called Aerodina Lenticulara was applied for. The same inventor is also credited by some with the world first jet in 1910. In 1905, he also built a missile-aeroplane for the Romanian Army.
ANd9w TIL the botanical genus name of the cotton thistle means 'donkey fart thorny food'