| Topics | Replies | Author | Score | Last Post |
|---|
|
|
TIL Wish was valued at $14 billion in 2020, however, it sold for just $173 million to Singapore's Qoo10 four years later in 2024.
(www.cnbc.com)
|
0 |
Lemmit.Online bot |
1 |
» |
|
|
TIL artist Thomas Dambo creates giant troll sculptures from recycled wood and hides them in forests around the world like a real life scavenger hunt
(cheekwood.org)
|
0 |
Lemmit.Online bot |
1 |
» |
|
|
TIL multistage rockets were described by a Lithuanian engineer in 1650.
(en.wikipedia.org)
|
0 |
Lemmit.Online bot |
2 |
» |
|
|
TIL Ali Dia talked his way into signing for Southampton F.C. after someone pretending to be football legend George Weah called the club recommending him. He played one Premier League game in 1996 ...
(www.attackingfootball.com)
|
0 |
Lemmit.Online bot |
1 |
» |
|
|
TIL about two-thirds of all scurvy is found in autistic people
(en.wikipedia.org)
|
0 |
Lemmit.Online bot |
1 |
» |
|
|
TIL about the British pornographic magazine Whitehouse. Substantially more explicit than its predecessors, it was allegedly named after the anti-pornography campaigner Mary Whitehouse, though the ...
(en.wikipedia.org)
|
0 |
Lemmit.Online bot |
1 |
» |
|
|
TIL Sperm whales have conical teeth on their long, narrow, lower jaw. The teeth fit neatly into sockets in the upper jaw, which has no teeth
(ocean.si.edu)
|
0 |
Lemmit.Online bot |
1 |
» |
|
|
TIL about Venera 7, a 1970 probe designed to land and take measurements of Venus. The probe functioned only 20 minutes on the surface, in 475 °C (887 °F) temperature and 1,310 psi atmospheric pres...
(en.wikipedia.org)
|
0 |
Lemmit.Online bot |
1 |
» |
|
|
TIL about Kate Saunders, the first woman to use an ejector seat in the UK, suffering a broken leg and pelvis. She was seriously ill with 28% burns; the ejection seat was typically designed for the...
(en.wikipedia.org)
|
0 |
Lemmit.Online bot |
1 |
» |
|
|
TIL that Portugal's 1974 Eurovision winning entry, E depois do adeus, was one of two secret signals which alerted rebel soldiers to begin the Carnation Revolution
(en.wikipedia.org)
|
0 |
Lemmit.Online bot |
1 |
» |
|
|
TIL about the Plura cave disaster, where two divers died during an expedition and their friends went back for their bodies in secret, despite warnings from authorities.
(www.bbc.co.uk)
|
0 |
Lemmit.Online bot |
1 |
» |
|
|
TIL that there is a company in Hokkaido Japan called Ohta Seiki that hand crafts animatronic wolves to act as scarecrows to scare bears to try to stop bear attacks. The heads moves and there is a ...
(www.the-independent.com)
|
0 |
Lemmit.Online bot |
1 |
» |
|
|
TIL the “Sea Voyage on Wheels”, a Victorian-era railway in the sea at Brighton, England that ran for 5 years and carried tens of thousands of passengers over its lifespan.
(en.wikipedia.org)
|
0 |
Lemmit.Online bot |
1 |
» |
|
|
TIL author William Peter Blatty’s mom’s sole income when he was growing up came from selling homemade jelly on the streets of Manhattan and she once offered some to Franklin D. Roosevelt when he w...
(en.wikipedia.org)
|
0 |
Lemmit.Online bot |
1 |
» |
|
|
TIL the 1994 World Cup hosted by the USA ranks first in overall attendance and average match attendance. The final match was attended by 94,194 fans.
(en.wikipedia.org)
|
0 |
Lemmit.Online bot |
1 |
» |
|
|
TIL Along Parramatta Road in Sydney, there are over 100 abandoned and derelict stores. Locals have described the road as a "varicose vein" and looking "like Beirut on a bad day".
(en.wikipedia.org)
|
0 |
Lemmit.Online bot |
2 |
» |
|
|
TIL that The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind was so poorly optimized for the original Xbox that the system’s 64MB of RAM would be completely reset upon each loading screen. According to Todd Howard: ...
(www.gamesradar.com)
|
0 |
Lemmit.Online bot |
1 |
» |
|
|
TIL that the last male heir of the Roman Imperial line, traceable back to Julius Caesar, died in 1508 as a common soldier in Rome.
(en.wikipedia.org)
|
0 |
Lemmit.Online bot |
1 |
» |
|
|
TIL 3.5 billion years ago, when life first appeared on Earth in the form of single-celled organisms, the days only lasted six hours long, as the planet rotated more swiftly on its axis than it doe...
(www.youtube.com)
|
0 |
Lemmit.Online bot |
1 |
» |
|
|
TIL a man digging a swimming pool in his backyard accidentally uncovered a hidden stash of gold worth around $800,000 — including rare coins and treasure believed to have been buried for decades.
(www.popularmechanics.com)
|
0 |
Lemmit.Online bot |
1 |
» |
|
|
TIL about "sniper tourism" where rich people paid 100k for "human hunting" in the bosnian war during the 90s
(en.wikipedia.org)
|
0 |
Lemmit.Online bot |
2 |
» |
|
|
TIL about Dorothy Martin who convinced a small group that aliens had warned her of a catastrophic flood in 1954. When the flood did not happen they quickly pivoted to say that it was their devotio...
(en.wikipedia.org)
|
0 |
Lemmit.Online bot |
1 |
» |
|
|
TIL a man watching an episode of the "Antiques Roadshow" noticed a Navajo blanket, that was similar to one his grandma left him (and had been sitting in his closet for years), be appraised for $30...
(www.cnbc.com)
|
0 |
Lemmit.Online bot |
2 |
» |
|
|
TIL there is a volcano in Indonesia called Kawah Ijen that burns bright blue at night because it burns sulfur at 1100° Celsius
(www.smithsonianmag.com)
|
0 |
Lemmit.Online bot |
2 |
» |
|
|
TIL about Anton syndrome, a rare symptom of brain damage occurring in the occipital lobe. Those who have it are blind, but affirm, often quite adamantly and in the face of clear evidence of their ...
(en.wikipedia.org)
|
0 |
Lemmit.Online bot |
2 |
» |
|