tags: today-i-learned

• The Model Characterized in Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa' was Only Officially Identified in 2005 as Lisa Del Giocondo
  13 January 2023 | comments | wikipedia.org | tags: today-i-learned
• Pluto Hasn't Completed an Orbit Around The Sun Since Its Discovery. Pluto's Orbit Takes About 248 Years, and Pluto was Discovered in 1930.
  10 January 2023 | comments | en.wikipedia.org | tags: today-i-learned
• Brachiosaurus Vomit Contained More Than Enough Force & Slurry to Kill You
  9 January 2023 | comments | boingboing.net | tags: animal, and today-i-learned
• At The Second Tour De France, The First Four Finishers Were Disqualified Because They Took The Train
  9 January 2023 | comments | en.wikipedia.org | tags: sport, and today-i-learned
• In 2004, Dutch Scientists Left a 'Hamster Wheel' in The Wild, and All Types of Forest Animals, Including Frogs and Slugs, Used It Throughout The Year
  6 January 2023 | comments | royalsocietypublishing.org | tags: today-i-learned
• The First Airline Started in 1914, with Scheduled Service Between Tampa and St. Petersburg, Florida. The Flight Took 23 Minutes at a Cruising Altitude of 5 Feet.
  3 January 2023 | comments | historynet.com | tags: today-i-learned
• Bots 🤖 Drive ~40% of All Internet Traffic.
  3 January 2023 | comments | thenextweb.com | tags: today-i-learned
• The Record for Most Push-Ups in One Day is 46,001. The Record was Achieved by Charles Servizio at The Age of 43 in 1993.
  1 January 2023 | comments | en.wikipedia.org | tags: today-i-learned
• The Skin of a Honey Badger Is So Thick That It Can Withstand Multiple Machete Blows, Arrows, and Spears. The Only Sure Way To Kill One Is Via a Club To The Skull Or Gunshot.
  28 April 2020 | comments | en.wikipedia.org | tags: nature, and today-i-learned
• The Letter "A" is an upside Down Ox Head - It's From an Ancient Egyptian Symbol Of An Ox, and "Leads" The Alphabet.
  28 April 2020 | comments | en.wikipedia.org | tags: history, and today-i-learned
• Cells In The Retina Decline In Sensitivity As We Age. Meaning That Colours E.G Blue Appear Washed Out As The Years Pass. In Short The Sky Actually Was Bluer When You Were Younger.
  27 April 2020 | comments | allaboutvision.com | tags: health, science, and today-i-learned
• 50 To 85 Percent Of Oxygen On Earth Comes From The Ocean, Mainly From Phytoplankton.
  26 April 2020 | comments | earthsky.org | tags: today-i-learned
• The Term "Dude" Was First Used In The 19Th Century To Mock Men Who Were Overly Concerned With Keeping Up With The Latest Fashion Trends
  24 April 2020 | comments | mentalfloss.com | tags: today-i-learned
• Mamoru Samuragochi is a Deaf Japanese Composer, Who Known as The “Digital-Age Beethoven” and Creator of Onimusha’S OST. But, It Later Turned Out That All of His Works In 18 Years Were Actually Written By a Ghost Writer. And His Deafness Is All Fake
  24 April 2020 | comments | newyorker.com | tags: today-i-learned
• Sila Sutharat, a Roadside Vendor In Phetchaburi, Thailand, Who For 20 Years Has Used a Grill Made of 1,000 Mirrors To Focus Sunlight To Cook Chicken And Pork. A Chicken Cooks In About 12 Minutes.
  23 April 2020 | comments | bangkokpost.com | tags: today-i-learned
• The Descendants of The Ming Dynasty, Whose Last Emperor Lost Power In 1644, Are Not Only Alive and Well, But Still Hold Vast Wealth and Power Over Modern-Day China, Occupying Top Positions In The Ruling Communist Party and Various State Corporations, Schools, and Societies
  21 April 2020 | comments | en.wikipedia.org | tags: today-i-learned
• Acacias, The Trees Whose Leaves are Eaten By Giraffes, Release an Airborne Chemical Called Ethylene. Ethylene Alerts Nearby Acacia Trees To Produce Tannin, a Toxin That Makes The Leaves Poisonous, and Lethal If Over-Consumed. Giraffes Try Avoiding This By Eating Trees Downwind From Another
  19 April 2020 | comments | tanzania-experience.com | tags: animal, nature, and today-i-learned
• In Jurassic Park (1993), The Insect Trapped in Amber and Which Made The Cloning of Dinosaur Possible was Actually Elephant Mosquito. It's The Only Mosquito That Doesn't Suck Blood, So Cloning Wasn't Actually Possible.
  17 April 2020 | comments | businessinsider.in | tags: movie, and today-i-learned
• In 1596, Abraham Ortelius, Recognized as The Creator of The First Modern Atlas, The Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Noticed The Shapes of Continents on Opposite Sides of The Atlantic Ocean (Most Notably, Africa and South America) Seem To Fit Together. He Was The First to Theorize The Continental Drift
  14 April 2020 | comments | wikipedia.org | tags: history, and today-i-learned
• Beer Cans Used To Be 40% Thicker and Way Stronger, Which is Why We See People Crushing Beer Cans as a Display of Strength in Older Movies
  10 April 2020 | comments | boston.com | tags: today-i-learned
• The First "Made In <Country>" Label Was Created In 1887 In England To Discourage Foreign Goods And To Encourage Consumption Of Domestic-Made Goods; This Ultimately Backfired When Britons Bought More Goods Made In Germany Than Domestic Made Ones
  5 April 2020 | comments | dw.com | tags: history, and today-i-learned
• The Highest Paid Athlete of All Time Was a Roman Charioteer. If He Had Lived Today He Would Have Been Worth 15 Billion USD
  4 April 2020 | comments | thevintagenews.com | tags: history, sport, and today-i-learned
• "Genghis Khan" Was Just A Title Meaning "Ruler Of All", His Given Name Was Temüjin Borjigin
  29 March 2020 | comments | en.wikipedia.org | tags: history, and today-i-learned
• Cosmic Dust Adds About 40,000 Metric Tons Per Year To Earth’s Mass
  28 March 2020 | comments | astronomy.com | tags: environment, science, and today-i-learned
• Earlier, Doctors Used To Tap The Patient's Chest To Get Clues About Their Medical Condition. One 'Gentleman' French Doctor, Reluctant To Embarrass a Young Girl, Rolled Up a Sheet Of Paper To Make a Tube And Placed It On Her Chest. It Worked, And As a Result, The Stethoscope Was Invented
  25 March 2020 | comments | scienceabc.com | tags: health, science, and today-i-learned
• Disney World Is The Second-Largest Purchaser Of Explosives In The United States. The First Is The U. S. Department Of Defense
  25 March 2020 | comments | mygoodtimes.in | tags: today-i-learned
• The Pyramids Are So Well Built That When A Sultan's Workers Tried To Destroy A Small Pyramid 3000 Years After Its Construction, They Could Only Move 1-2 Stones A Day And Gave Up After Creating Only A Gash After Eight Months
  24 March 2020 | comments | en.wikipedia.org | tags: history, and today-i-learned
• GTA V Is The Highest Grossing Piece Of Entertainment Ever Created At Over $6 Billion In Revenue. Not Just Video Games, But All Of Entertainment (More Than Any Marvel Movie, Music Album, Etc.)
  24 March 2020 | comments | trustedreviews.com | tags: business, games, and today-i-learned
• A 30,000 Year Old Virus Was Found To Still Be Infectious After It Was Isolated From Siberian Permafrost
  24 March 2020 | comments | pnas.org | tags: science, and today-i-learned
• The Colored Beads In Silica Gel Packets Are a Humidity Indicator. If The Beads are Blue or Orange The Silica Gel Can Still Adsorb More Moisture. If The Beads are Pink or Green, Then The Silica Gel Is Spent and Can Adsorb No More Moisture
  21 March 2020 | comments | en.wikipedia.org | tags: today-i-learned
• Magnolia Plants Are So Ancient That They're Pollinated By Beetles Because They Existed Prior To Bees Appearing
  21 March 2020 | comments | en.wikipedia.org | tags: environment, history, and today-i-learned
• Phages (a Group of Viruses) Were Supposed To Be Studied as Antibacterial Agents In Human Medicine, But Were Cut Short By The Discovery of Penicillin Shortly After. With Today's Increasingly Drug-Resistant Bacteria, Phages Are Being Considered Once Again
  19 March 2020 | comments | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | tags: health, science, and today-i-learned
• It Takes Thousands Of Years For Sunlight To Travel From The Sun's Core To Its Surface And Then Only 8 Minutes To Reach Us
  19 March 2020 | comments | ed.ted.com | tags: science, and today-i-learned
• In 36 BCE, Roman Statesman Marcus Varro Wrote About Germs, Describing Minute Creatures Which Cannot Be Seen By The Eyes, Which Enter The Body Through The Mouth And Nose And There Cause Serious Diseases. The Germ Theory Of Disease Would Not Be Accepted Widely For Another 1,900 Years
  19 March 2020 | comments | rcpe.ac.uk | tags: health, history, science, and today-i-learned
• Valonia Ventricosa, The Largest Single-Celled Organism In The World. They Can Grow Up To 5 Cm In Diameter
  16 March 2020 | comments | wikipedia.org | tags: science, and today-i-learned
• Bears Are Considered By Many Wildlife Biologists To Be One Of The Most Intelligent Land Animals Of North America. They Possess The Largest And Most Convoluted Brains Relative To Their Size Of Any Land Mammal. In The Animal Kingdom, Their Intelligence Compares With That Of Higher Primates
  16 March 2020 | comments | pbs.org | tags: animal, science, and today-i-learned
• About 85 Percent Of Hospitals Still Use Pagers Because Hospitals Can Be Dead Zones For Cell Service. In Some Hospital Areas, The Walls Are Built To Keep X-Rays From Penetrating, But Those Heavy-Duty Designs Also Make It Hard For A Cell Phone Signal To Make It Through But Not Pagers
  16 March 2020 | comments | rd.com | tags: health, technology, and today-i-learned
• 35 Years Ago Today: The First Domain Name Symbolics.Com was Registered
  16 March 2020 | comments | dofo.com | tags: domain, history, internet, and today-i-learned
• One Third of All Flight Delays In Europe are Caused By The French
  10 March 2020 | comments | euronews.com | tags: today-i-learned
• Tennis Balls Used To Be White Until Sir David Attenborough Realized They'd Be Hard To Follow On Color Television So The Sport Created "Optic Yellow" Ball
  9 March 2020 | comments | tennis365.com | tags: sport, and today-i-learned
• In 2002, a Marvel Comics Writer Based an Alternate Version of Nick Fury on Samuel L Jackson, Using His Image Without Permission. Jackson Discovered This and Nearly Took Legal Action. Marvel Offered To Cast Him as Fury If The Character Was Ever In a Movie. Jackson Took The Deal
  9 March 2020 | comments | time.com | tags: movie, and today-i-learned
• The Depictions of The Mafia In The Sopranos were So Accurate, That Real Members Thought That They Were Being Spied On. These Conversations were Overheard, When The FBI were Indeed Spying On Them
  6 March 2020 | comments | cheatsheet.com | tags: today-i-learned