Madbrad200@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years agoTIL of Cáin Adomnáin, "Europes first human rights treaty". Created in 697 CE, were a set of laws - which kings across Ireland & Scotland agreed to follow - guaranteeing safety of non-combatants in warplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL of Cáin Adomnáin, "Europes first human rights treaty". Created in 697 CE, were a set of laws - which kings across Ireland & Scotland agreed to follow - guaranteeing safety of non-combatants in warplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgMadbrad200@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Madbrad200@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years agoTIL of the Kingdom of Bailundo, a non-sovereign monarchy located in Angola. Its king was notably deposed in 2021 after being charged of involvement in a murderplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL of the Kingdom of Bailundo, a non-sovereign monarchy located in Angola. Its king was notably deposed in 2021 after being charged of involvement in a murderplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgMadbrad200@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Madbrad200@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years agoTIL an ant mega-colony exists across 3 continents and is thought to contain billions of ants, all of which recognise each other to be from the same colony. The largest part of the colony is in Europenews.bbc.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL an ant mega-colony exists across 3 continents and is thought to contain billions of ants, all of which recognise each other to be from the same colony. The largest part of the colony is in Europenews.bbc.co.ukMadbrad200@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 years agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 3 years agoTIL the Turks and Caicos accidentally had an igloo on its flag for almost eighty years despite comprising tropical islandswww.timespub.tcexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL the Turks and Caicos accidentally had an igloo on its flag for almost eighty years despite comprising tropical islandswww.timespub.tcUllallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 3 years agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 3 years agoTIL when Robert De Niro sought Italian citizenship, he was opposed by the largest Italian-American group for damaging the reputation of Italians by playing gangstersplus-squarewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL when Robert De Niro sought Italian citizenship, he was opposed by the largest Italian-American group for damaging the reputation of Italians by playing gangstersplus-squarewww.theguardian.comUllallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 3 years agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · edit-23 years agoTIL in 2011 the Argentine government is believed to have begun making McDonald's underprice the Big Mac specifically to cover the country's high inflation on The Economist's Big Mac indexplus-squarewww.economist.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL in 2011 the Argentine government is believed to have begun making McDonald's underprice the Big Mac specifically to cover the country's high inflation on The Economist's Big Mac indexplus-squarewww.economist.comUllallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · edit-23 years agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 3 years agoTIL in the 1900 Olympics, the Dutch pair rowing team fired their coxswain after the semifinals and won the gold medal with a random, unknown French boy as a lighter replacementplus-squarenowiknow.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL in the 1900 Olympics, the Dutch pair rowing team fired their coxswain after the semifinals and won the gold medal with a random, unknown French boy as a lighter replacementplus-squarenowiknow.comUllallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 3 years agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 3 years agoTIL treadmills originated as a form of punishment in prisonsplus-squarewww.mentalfloss.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL treadmills originated as a form of punishment in prisonsplus-squarewww.mentalfloss.comUllallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 3 years agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 3 years agoTIL there's exactly one upside-down traffic light in the US because the local Irish residents kept breaking it when red was above green.plus-squarenowiknow.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL there's exactly one upside-down traffic light in the US because the local Irish residents kept breaking it when red was above green.plus-squarenowiknow.comUllallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 3 years agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 3 years agoTIL that no one knows what the "p" in "pH" stands forplus-squarewww.nature.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL that no one knows what the "p" in "pH" stands forplus-squarewww.nature.comUllallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 3 years agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 3 years agoTIL the Soviet Union still produced advertisements, often of fake products, to make itself look more prosperousplus-squarewww.rbth.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL the Soviet Union still produced advertisements, often of fake products, to make itself look more prosperousplus-squarewww.rbth.comUllallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 3 years agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 3 years agoTIL Big Bird's puppeteer navigates by a TV inside the suit, showing what is being recorded by the cameraplus-squarewww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL Big Bird's puppeteer navigates by a TV inside the suit, showing what is being recorded by the cameraplus-squarewww.youtube.comUllallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 3 years agomessage-square0linkfedilink
seirim@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 years agoTIL that Civilloquy.com is an instance, haplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareTIL that Civilloquy.com is an instance, haplus-squareseirim@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 years agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Senseibull@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 years agoTIL: Nick Offerman of “ Parks and Recreation” is married to the woman who played his psycho-ex Tammy in real lifeplus-squareamp.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL: Nick Offerman of “ Parks and Recreation” is married to the woman who played his psycho-ex Tammy in real lifeplus-squareamp.theguardian.comSenseibull@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 years agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 3 years agoTIL during WWII a British corp's 5-day raid accidentally defeated and captured an entire Italian field army and recaptured western Egypt and half of Libyaplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL during WWII a British corp's 5-day raid accidentally defeated and captured an entire Italian field army and recaptured western Egypt and half of Libyaplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgUllallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 3 years agomessage-square0linkfedilink
