Today I Learned 🎓

2023-05-14 23:01:34 TIL Prior to human settlement New Zealand had no land-based mammals apart from three bat species [Source] Aprire / Come

2023-05-14 23:01:33 TIL About 70 percent of the material for the original Human Genome Project came from some dude in Buffalo, NY. [Source] Aprire / Come

2023-05-14 20:01:48 TIL Germany sold 22 Mig-29 to Poland in 2003 for just 22 €. [Source] Aprire / Come

2023-05-14 19:03:16 TIL about a cat named Room 8 that lived in a public school for 16 years. During his time their he would disappear during the summer and return, like clockwork on the first day of school. He became so well known that poems and songs were sung about him. [Source] Aprire / Come

2023-05-14 19:03:15 TIL The Magna Carta was annulled by Pope Innocent III and reinstated multiple times by different English Kings. While perceived as a constitution the Magna Carta was limited to 25 Barons and the King, and the document has been almost entirely repealed or replaced with new laws over the centuries. [Source] Aprire / Come

2023-05-14 17:01:52 TIL there is a 1/25th scale version of the Suez Canal in a French lake to train ship captains. [Source] Aprire / Come

2023-05-14 16:01:01 TIL: On her deathbed in 2005, Hitler's nurse, Erna Fledgal the last survivor of the Fuhrerbunker revealed she found him charming and polite. However, she said Eva Braun had a "colourless" personality and that the death of Hitler's dog affected the staff more than Braun's. [Source] Aprire / Come

2023-05-14 14:02:17 TIL the creator of the popular e-mail client Eudora named it after author Eudora Welty, for her short story "Why I Live at the P.O." If he had known that Eudora would become as popular as it did, he would not have presumed to name it after a (then) living author (she was pleased and amused) [Source] Aprire / Come

2023-05-14 12:01:00 TIL Boogers contain salivary mucins, which forms a barrier on your teeth from bacteria that can cause cavities. [Source] Aprire / Come

2023-05-14 09:00:58 TIL when designing a new flavor for Taco Bell, the engineers had no idea for a name. During a trip to Baja they remarked they are having a good time. Someone shouted "a Baja Blast!" and that gave it the name. [Source] Aprire / Come