Also called Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), it affects like 1 in 5,000 people who contract measles (vaccinated), but jumps to 1 in 609 in the unvaccinated....
Frances Flora Bond, nicknamed "Fanny", was born in Leicester, England, on July 24, 1812. Her father, Robert Bond, had been a prosperous lawyer and left an ample legacy to his children, who grew up very well off.[1] In her youth, Palmer, with her sister Maria, attended Miss Linwood's School for young ladies, a select private...
Strike participants, their families, and advocacy groups reported that the leaders and organizers of the strike were punished with solitary confinement, loss of communication privileges, and prison transfers.[4][5][6]...
Hot water dissolves lead more quickly than cold water and is therefore more likely to contain greater amounts of lead. Never use water from the hot water tap for drinking, cooking, or making baby formula.
TIL that there was a man named William Patrick Hitler, a man who could have been a Nazi prince yet instead became an American veteran who helped defeat his uncle's empire....
TIL about OnionShare, an Open Source Hosting, File Sharing, and Chatting Application Available on All Major Platforms ( en.wikipedia.org )
You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10 ( www.mathsisfun.com )
YSK You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10...
TIL that a gram of uranium contains 20 million kcals so if you ate just one gram of uranium you would have enough calories for the rest of your life.
#DeathHacks
TIL of Dawson disease, a horrific complication of measles ( en.wikipedia.org )
Also called Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), it affects like 1 in 5,000 people who contract measles (vaccinated), but jumps to 1 in 609 in the unvaccinated....
TIL that this is the bird sound a cuckoo clock is imitating ( www.youtube.com )
TIL: The Percentages agreement, where the UK and Soviets agreed to split up control of Eastern Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentages_agreement
TIL how tall buildings are
TIL: About the 2007 Chinese slave scandal ( en.wikipedia.org )
Party officials and police worked to protect the slavers and stop the rescue of slaves from out of the province.
TIL that Jakarta is now world's largest city ( boingboing.net )
TIL about the Babushka Lady who filmed jfk assassination ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL There was an English painter called Fanny Palmer (b. 1812) ( en.wikipedia.org )
Frances Flora Bond, nicknamed "Fanny", was born in Leicester, England, on July 24, 1812. Her father, Robert Bond, had been a prosperous lawyer and left an ample legacy to his children, who grew up very well off.[1] In her youth, Palmer, with her sister Maria, attended Miss Linwood's School for young ladies, a select private...
TIL about the 2018 US Prison Strike, an attempt by prisoners to end US Prison Slavery ( en.wikipedia.org )
Strike participants, their families, and advocacy groups reported that the leaders and organizers of the strike were punished with solitary confinement, loss of communication privileges, and prison transfers.[4][5][6]...
TIL about the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), an anti-communist organization created by the CIA to sway Intellectual opinion against communism ( en.wikipedia.org )
In the early 1960s, the CCF mounted a campaign against the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, an ardent communist....
TIL the Handling of Human Waste In The Sky ( hackaday.com )
TIL the unrest that occurred in 2025 happened due to negative public opinion being inflated by internet bots ( www.youtube.com )
TIL about abogen. A tool to generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text with synchronized captions. ( github.com )
TIL The ability to count is universal in the animal kingdom. Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it. ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL That Supporting Third-Party Candidates in the US makes me MAGA.
TIL about The Lobby, a 2017 Docuseries about AIPAC, whose second series was blocked ( en.wikipedia.org )
Film also claims that Adam Milstein funds Canary Mission
TIL why you're not supposed to cook or drink hot tap water - it's the lead (and other heavy metals) ( www.epa.gov )
Hot water dissolves lead more quickly than cold water and is therefore more likely to contain greater amounts of lead. Never use water from the hot water tap for drinking, cooking, or making baby formula.
TIL that there was a man named William Patrick Hitler, a man who could have been a Nazi prince yet instead became an American veteran who helped defeat his uncle's empire.
TIL that there was a man named William Patrick Hitler, a man who could have been a Nazi prince yet instead became an American veteran who helped defeat his uncle's empire....
TIL: Cows didn't moo until the 1540s ( www.etymonline.com )
Before that they 'low'ed (In English).
TIL for nearly a thousand years, the ancient world’s most popular and admired comedian was Menander of Athens. Ironically, his work was lost to history until 1952, when a single play was rediscovered ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL about Göran Kropp who rode his bike from Sweden to Mount Everest, climbed it solo, and rode back (He returned a few years later to help clean up) ( en.wikipedia.org )
TIL that if you translate the Septuagint (around 247 BC) straight from Greek, it mentions Jesus. The English version changes the name. ( www.ellopos.net )
The right side was translated...