
Nothing surprising given how terrible Trump is, but nonetheless.
He also was present at a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in 1927.
It’s a toothbrush mustache, and more than one historical person wore them, Charlie Chaplin who Hitler likely copied was one of them.
TIL one of the Marlboro Men was named Dick Hammer
25d 9h ago by lemmings.world/u/cm0002 in til@lemmy.caTIL that Phosphenes (the visual effect that you get when you rub your eyes) can also be triggered by magnetic brain stimulation, which has been experimentally used for brain-to-brain information trans
1mon 3d ago by anarchist.nexus/u/Wildmimic in til@lemmy.caTIL about Trans Australia Airlines Flight 408 where in 1960 an Australian pilot punched an armed hijacker and disarmed his bomb
1mon 3d ago by quokk.au/u/Quokka in til@lemmy.ca from en.wikipedia.orgTIL about CAPTCHA farms: AI pays humans pennies to prove they’re human
1mon 4d ago by toast.ooo/u/cm0002 in til@lemmy.ca from www.youtube.comThe third highest-ranking person (highest-ranking woman) in the Tibetan Buddhist hierarchy is a high-ranking Chinese cadre and has, as a result, been accused of "collaborating" with China
1mon 4d ago by toast.ooo/u/cm0002 in til@lemmy.ca from en.wikipedia.orgToday I learned that the motto of the Habsburg Monarchy was A.E.I.O.U. (Austriae est imperare orbi universo (All the world is subject to Austria))
1mon 16d ago by lemy.lol/u/cm0002 in til@lemmy.ca from en.wikipedia.orgTIL that most phone calendars lets them change your input and contact people without your permission-even most fdroid apps
1mon 19d ago by sh.itjust.works/u/pelespirit in til@lemmy.ca from f-droid.orgThe gratitude story "A Glass of Milk" that impacting me from childhood till now is half-real
1mon 29d ago by piefed.social/u/Anonymous_Chinese in til@lemmy.caKeith Richards wrote 'I Can't Get No Satisfaction' in his sleep
2mon 15d ago by lemmings.world/u/cm0002 in til@lemmy.ca from en.wikipedia.orgTIL that flint stone is a biogenic rock, which means it was created from organisms
2mon 21d ago by piefed.social/u/tomiant in til@lemmy.ca from geomusings.orgTIL that Fibonacci used his famous sequence to try to calculate the population growth of rabbits (bun alert?)
2mon 21d ago by europe.pub/u/cm0002 in til@lemmy.ca from en.wikipedia.orgTIL that the population of Israel is less than 10 million
2mon 22d ago by piefed.social/u/tomiant in til@lemmy.ca from en.wikipedia.orgwalker texas ranger is in the same universe as martial law.
2mon 28d ago by piefed.social/u/HubertManne in til@lemmy.caTIL github doesnt support IPv6
2mon 13h ago by suppo.fi/u/cm0002 in til@lemmy.ca from github.comTIL St. Urho's Day was a made up saint, probably to extend St. Patrick's Day celebrations..
3mon 6d ago by lemmy.ca/u/Quilotoa in til@lemmy.ca from en.wikipedia.org[Transhumance!] Why Donkeys and mule nannies carry lambs down Italian mountains - BrightVibes
3mon 9d ago by lemmy.ca/u/slothrop in til@lemmy.ca from www.brightvibes.comVenezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world (by a lot)
3mon 10d ago by libretechni.ca/u/cm0002 in til@lemmy.ca from en.wikipedia.orgTIL The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range
3mon 11d ago by libretechni.ca/u/cm0002 in til@lemmy.ca from vividmaps.com(TIL) Michelangelo forged an ancient sculpture and sold it to a cardinal, but was caught.
3mon 13d ago by sh.itjust.works/u/pelespirit in til@lemmy.ca from www.thehistoryofart.orgTIL: A Bob the Builder version of Mambo No. 5 topped the UK charts, before being removed from radio play due to its lyrics about building construction and that it was charting during September 2001
3mon 1d ago by lemmy.blahaj.zone/u/als in til@lemmy.ca from en.wikipedia.orgTIL in the early 1960s, the United States shot 480 000 000 copper needles into space
4mon 6d ago by lemmy.ca/u/Quilotoa in til@lemmy.ca from en.wikipedia.orgTIL about the Tanganyika laughter epidemic - Wikipedia
4mon 15d ago by sopuli.xyz/u/ooli3 in til@lemmy.ca from en.wikipedia.orgTIL: Youtube actually has the RSS feature to subscribe Youtube channnel,but hidden
4mon 21d ago by piefed.social/u/Anonymous_Chinese in til@lemmy.caYou can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10
4mon 1d ago by lemmy.cafe/u/cm0002 in til@lemmy.ca from www.mathsisfun.comTIL 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.
5mon 25d ago by lemmy.ca/u/Greg in til@lemmy.caTIL that this is the bird sound a cuckoo clock is imitating
6mon 11d ago by sh.itjust.works/u/pelespirit in til@lemmy.ca from www.youtube.comTIL that Jakarta is now world's largest city
6mon 22d ago by sopuli.xyz/u/ooli3 in til@lemmy.ca from boingboing.netTIL about the Babushka Lady who filmed jfk assassination
6mon 22d ago by sopuli.xyz/u/ooli3 in til@lemmy.ca from en.wikipedia.orgTIL There was an English painter called Fanny Palmer (b. 1812)
6mon 23d ago by sh.itjust.works/u/pelespirit in til@lemmy.ca from en.wikipedia.orgTIL about the 2018 US Prison Strike, an attempt by prisoners to end US Prison Slavery
6mon 25d ago by suppo.fi/u/cm0002 in til@lemmy.ca from en.wikipedia.orgTIL about the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), an anti-communist organization created by the CIA to sway Intellectual opinion against communism
6mon 25d ago by suppo.fi/u/cm0002 in til@lemmy.ca from en.wikipedia.orgTIL the Handling of Human Waste In The Sky
6mon 28d ago by sopuli.xyz/u/ooli3 in til@lemmy.ca from hackaday.comTIL about abogen. A tool to generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text with synchronized captions.
7mon 3d ago by libretechni.ca/u/cm0002 in til@lemmy.ca from github.comTIL The ability to count is universal in the animal kingdom. Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it.
7mon 6d ago by suppo.fi/u/cm0002 in til@lemmy.ca from en.wikipedia.orgTIL about The Lobby, a 2017 Docuseries about AIPAC, whose second series was blocked
7mon 8d ago by literature.cafe/u/cm0002 in til@lemmy.ca from en.wikipedia.orgTIL why you're not supposed to cook or drink hot tap water - it's the lead (and other heavy metals)
7mon 9d ago by sh.itjust.works/u/pelespirit in til@lemmy.ca from www.epa.govTIL 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.
7mon 9d ago by futurology.today/u/cm0002 in til@lemmy.caTIL 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
7mon 16d ago by sopuli.xyz/u/ooli3 in til@lemmy.ca from en.wikipedia.orgTIL that if you translate the Septuagint (around 247 BC) straight from Greek, it mentions Jesus. The English version changes the name.
7mon 25d ago by sh.itjust.works/u/pelespirit in til@lemmy.ca from www.ellopos.netTIL About the 1985 MOVE bombing, where the Philadelphia Police Department bombed and burned 61 houses, murdering 11 and leaving 250 homeless
7mon 3d ago by lemdro.id/u/cm0002 in til@lemmy.ca from en.wikipedia.orgTIL About the Jeju Massacre, where South Korean forces wiped out 10 percent of the island of Jeju for the crime of organizing a General Strike
8mon 8d ago by lemdro.id/u/cm0002 in til@lemmy.ca from en.wikipedia.orgTIL the guillotine was named after a man who neither invented it nor believed in the death penalty
8mon 12d ago by feddit.online/u/Jerry in til@lemmy.ca22 months later
8mon 13d ago by lemmy.world/u/kingofras in til@lemmy.ca from sfo3.digitaloceanspaces.comTIL that Sacramento CA hosts a heavy metal and rock festival every year.
8mon 16d ago by sh.itjust.works/u/cm0002 in til@lemmy.ca from en.m.wikipedia.orgTIL I want to go to South Korea and ride a Sky Capsule
8mon 17d ago by sh.itjust.works/u/pelespirit in til@lemmy.ca from awaytothecity.comTIL A group of Irish grocery workers banning grapefruit led to Ireland being the first county to pass BDS against Apartheid South Africa
8mon 17d ago by sh.itjust.works/u/cm0002 in til@lemmy.ca from youtube.comTIL Girls of the Kayan tribe start wearing neck rings at around 5 years old. The rings can stretch their necks to a length of about 15 inches (38 cm).
8mon 19d ago by lemmy.world/u/cm0002 in til@lemmy.ca from en.wikipedia.orgTIL The Addams Family was originally a cartoon that ran for decades until the author, Charles Addams, died. Also, he was friends with Ray Bradbury.
8mon 23d ago by sh.itjust.works/u/pelespirit in til@lemmy.ca from i.pinimg.com






















