TIL that Wyoming is larger than the United Kingdom in area but less populous than Glasgow
Wyoming Area: 253,335 km2...
TIL: A man rejected for police job due to scoring too high on intelligence test. ( abcnews.go.com )
Sept. 8, 2000 -- A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city....
TIL The fish pepper was thought to be extinct for much of the 20th century until the rediscovery of fifty year-old seeds in a family's freezer ( www.bbc.com )
The fish pepper (named for its common use in seafood dishes) is popular today, but it nearly disappeared altogether: that it still exists is thanks to William Woys Weaver, a Maryland author and ethnographer. In 1995, Weaver discovered a jar of seeds in the bottom of a freezer that belonged to his grandfather, H Ralph Weaver....
TIL you can improve your google search result by adding "before:2023" ( mastodon.social )
TIL Ecuador doesn't have its own currency and uses US dollars, but maybe not the same US dollars you are used to seeing. ( lemmy.world )
TIL America had its First Native American Vice President in 1929, Charles Curtis ( lemmy.world )
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Curtis
TIL about the social history of Jell-O Salad ( www.seriouseats.com )
TIL Ecuador has constitutional protections for the rights of nature, and those protections are actively determining environmental legal cases. ( amp.theguardian.com )
A landmark case was won in 2021 ruling against the rights of a mining company to mine los cedros' cloud forest, a high altitude rainforest, because it would harm the biodiversity of the area....
TIL North Koreans cannot go to Japan ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL abou the Amalgam Comics, a joint publication by DC & Marvel featuring characters that were a mix of those from both universes ( en.wikipedia.org )
About the comics: https://antifandom.com/marvel/wiki/Amalgam_Comics...
TIL personal credit scores only started in 1989 ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
I always assumed credit scores were an integral and historic part of the American financial system....
TiL the car and gas industry knew about the health risks of leaded fuel but sold it for 100 years anyway
link :...
TIL that there are two words in the English language that rhyme with 'purple'
I always believed that there were none, but on a rewatch of QI, I learned there are actually two:...
TIL the word 'lox' (smoked salmon) is the oldest word in the English language- unchanged in meaning and pronunciation for 8,000 years ( nautil.us )
it's also yummy
TIL about Earl Silverman, a domestic abuse survivor who founded a shelter for men. It was denied funding from the government and he was ridiculed. The shelter went bankrupt and he died by suicide ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
TIL a Canadian from Greece took an American version of an Italian dish and added tropical fruit to it and called it a Hawaiian pizza. ( en.wikipedia.org )
til Don Pardo worked as announcer on SNL until his death, age 96! ( en.wikipedia.org )
Dominick George "Don" Pardo Jr. (February 22, 1918 – August 18, 2014) was an American radio and television announcer whose career spanned more than seven decades. A member of the Television Hall of Fame, Pardo was noted for his 70-year tenure with NBC, working as the announcer for early incarnations of such notable shows as...
TIL eating 1 gram polar bear liver can be fatal due to an overdose of vitamin A that makes your skin fall off ( animals.howstuffworks.com )
A healthy human liver contains 575 international units (IU) of vitamin A per gram while a polar bear's liver contains between 24,000 and 35,000 IU per gram. Compare that to the tolerable upper level of vitamin A intake for a healthy adult human: 10,000. Signs of toxicity generally occur when approximately 25,000 to 33,000 IU are...
TIL: A South Korean software engineer commemorated a headstone for Internet Explorer which read "He was a good tool to download other browsers" ( www.reuters.com )
TIL the earliest recorded use of the @ symbol was from a religious text from 1345 ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL "magic wand" translates to "baguette magique" in french ( i.imgur.com )
TIL that during the filming of Borat, Police was called 90+ times ( www.youtube.com )
And the FBI was assigned to follow the film team on reports of a "vaguely middle-eastern man with a bear in an ice-crem truck", which has to be the funniest report xD
For cities of 1 millon up, Chicago is the most violent in USA ( en.m.wikipedia.org )
Chicago vs. worst ranking, based on...
TIL - Bulgaria , over the past 35 years, has seen the fastest decline in population of any country in the world — a 28 percent drop ( e360.yale.edu )
TIL Children as young as eight can and have been put on the sex offender registry, which lasts the rest of their lives. ( jlc.org )
