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Page 5 of 22   Goto page « First 1 ... 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ... 22 Last »
 Topics  Replies  Author  Score  Last Post 
Reduced urban air pollution and mortality from the transition to new energy vehicles in China (www.nature.com) 7 UnderpantsWeevil 23 »
TIL - the superfriends cartoon continued with cyborg and firestorm 5 HubertManne 11 »
TIL about Benner's Cycle - a predictive pattern created by an Ohian farmer in 1872 that tried to predict economic boom and bust cycles between 1873 and 2059 (en.wikipedia.org) 9 ThePowerOfGeek 83 »
TIL - The Japanese economy postwar ran on wartime logic turned towards consumer goods, thanks to "window guidance" 3 I Cast Fist 28 »
TIL there's a subspecies of rat whose scientific name is *Rattus rattus rattus* (en.wikipedia.org) 43 TheTechnician27 371 »
TIL about the Flashpoint Archive (en.wikipedia.org) 14 gandalf_der_13te 254 »
TIL Pop-Tarts are now lower quality than the old generic knock offs
[ Goto page: 1, 2, 3 ] 		149 Why is Lemmy so Racist? 481 »
TIL 11/14 current feeder judges (those whose clerks most frequently go on to SCOTUS clerkships) were Republican appointees (en.wikipedia.org) 15 idiomaddict 104 »
TIL about the railroad speeder which is a small railcar used around the world by track inspectors and work crews to move quickly to and from work sites. (en.wikipedia.org) 10 jaykrown 218 »
TIL that Ohio is a major importer of radioactive wastewater. Contaminated fracking water gets pumped underground but doesn’t always stay there. Local communities are not notified (www.nytimes.com) 0 Vosh 32 »
TIL: „Oberdeutscher Präteritumschwund“ exists and I absolutely love it — and the name, obviously (wikis.world) 2 Tooting 🐳 38 »
TIL the priest related to the botched Ecce Homo was arrested for sexual assault (www.theolivepress.es) 48 stenAanden 171 »
TIL that in the 90s a professional wrestler named Hakushi was managed by JD Vance's Japanese doppelgänger (thelemmy.club) 3 green_goglin 43 »
TIL some reptiles can also generate their own heat (www.eurekalert.org) 13 livligkinkajou 85 »
TIL about the myth of Telegonus, a not so known son of Odysseus (en.wikipedia.org) 9 nikopol 53 »
TIL that Richard Garfield, the creator of Magic The Gathering, is the great great grandson of President James Garfield. (lemmy.world) 44 The Picard Maneuver 431 »
TIL There's a Secret Netflix for Billionaires (www.youtube.com) 11 VioletTea -22 »
TIL Black Cars Are Much More Likely Than White Cars to Be Involved in an Accident 41 spaghettiwestern 136 »
TIL the Japanese Prime Minister is called the Cart Titan from AoT (www.imdb.com) 0 TribblesBestFriend 21 »
TIL that one company owns Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, Match.com and at least 40 more dating sites/apps (en.wikipedia.org)
[ Goto page: 1, 2, 3 ] 		142 als 607 »
TIL that the term "Jaywalking" was invented in the 1920s by the auto industry to shift the blame for accidents from drivers to pedestrians (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
[ Goto page: 1, 2 ] 		85 not_IO 924 »
TIL about Kern River Oil Field which is one of California’s largest and densest oil developments (lemmy.world) 6 jaykrown 111 »
TIL that every year, the most powerful people in Michigan meet on an island for 3 days (michiganadvance.com) 7 daniel_callahan 82 »
TIL about the Bond Bug which is a small British two-seat, three-wheeled automobile manufactured in the 1970s (en.wikipedia.org) 4 jaykrown 36 »
TIL that the coffee filter was invented by a women in 1908 (en.wikipedia.org) 19 Zwiebel 158 »
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About this forum

What did you learn today? Share it with us!

We learn something new every day. This is a community dedicated to informing each other and helping to spread knowledge.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Rules (interactive)

Rule 1- All posts must begin with TIL. Linking to a source of info is optional, but highly recommended as it helps to spark discussion.

** Posts must be about an actual fact that you have learned, but it doesn't matter if you learned it today. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.**

Rule 2- Your post subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.

Your post subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.

Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.

Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.

Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.

That's it.

Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

Posts and comments which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.

Rule 6- Regarding non-TIL posts.

Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-TIL posts using the [META] tag on your post title.

Rule 7- You can't harass or disturb other members.

If you vocally harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.

For further explanation, clarification and feedback about this rule, you may follow this link.

Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.
Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.

Let everyone have their own content.

Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.

Unless included in our Whitelist for Bots, your bot will not be allowed to participate in this community. To have your bot whitelisted, please contact the moderators for a short review.

Partnered Communities

You can view our partnered communities list by following this link. To partner with our community and be included, you are free to message the moderators or comment on a pinned post.

Community Moderation

For inquiry on becoming a moderator of this community, you may comment on the pinned post of the time, or simply shoot a message to the current moderators.

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