Lemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 2 hours agoTIL Robert Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln’s eldest son, was present at 3 of the 4 presidential assassinations and was the only one of Lincoln’s 4 children to survive past 18 and outlive both parents.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL Robert Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln’s eldest son, was present at 3 of the 4 presidential assassinations and was the only one of Lincoln’s 4 children to survive past 18 and outlive both parents.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgLemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 2 hours agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Lemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 4 hours agoTIL that rabbits cannot vomit due to a very strong esophageal sphincter.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkTIL that rabbits cannot vomit due to a very strong esophageal sphincter.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgLemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 4 hours agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Lemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 4 hours agoTIL Part of the reason why Thai restaurants are so common is because the Thai government paid for it.plus-squarewww.vice.comexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL Part of the reason why Thai restaurants are so common is because the Thai government paid for it.plus-squarewww.vice.comLemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 4 hours agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Lemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 4 hours agoTIL that before the invention of glasses, people would shape and polish stones made of quartz and other materials until they formed a lens. They would then place the stone on whatever they wanted ...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL that before the invention of glasses, people would shape and polish stones made of quartz and other materials until they formed a lens. They would then place the stone on whatever they wanted ...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgLemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 4 hours agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Lemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 4 hours agoTIL that following the election of Jesse Ventura as the 38th governor of Minnesota, bumper stickers with the phrase "My governor can beat up your governor" appeared on cars across the stateplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL that following the election of Jesse Ventura as the 38th governor of Minnesota, bumper stickers with the phrase "My governor can beat up your governor" appeared on cars across the stateplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgLemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 4 hours agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Lemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 4 hours agoTIL - The moment in “just a moment please” is actually 90 seconds although the popular belief is that a moment is synonymous with an actual secondplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL - The moment in “just a moment please” is actually 90 seconds although the popular belief is that a moment is synonymous with an actual secondplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgLemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 4 hours agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Lemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 8 hours agoTIL about al-Ma’arri, a blind vegetarian pessimist who preached atheism in 10th-century Syria. He controversially argued that life was devoid of meaning, humans shouldn’t reproduce in order to spa...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkTIL about al-Ma’arri, a blind vegetarian pessimist who preached atheism in 10th-century Syria. He controversially argued that life was devoid of meaning, humans shouldn’t reproduce in order to spa...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgLemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 8 hours agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Lemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 8 hours agoTIL about Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, a slave-trader who was captured and sold as an enslaved person to his own clients. After managing to free himself and return home, he continued to be a slave-traderplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkTIL about Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, a slave-trader who was captured and sold as an enslaved person to his own clients. After managing to free himself and return home, he continued to be a slave-traderplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgLemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 8 hours agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Lemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 7 hours agoTIL about Iron Mike Malloy who survived his “friends” trying to murder him for insurance money using antifreeze, turpentine, horse liniment, rat poison, wood alcohol, poisoned oysters, spoiled sar...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL about Iron Mike Malloy who survived his “friends” trying to murder him for insurance money using antifreeze, turpentine, horse liniment, rat poison, wood alcohol, poisoned oysters, spoiled sar...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgLemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 7 hours agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Lemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 7 hours agoTIL that one of the largest makers of silverware in the world started out as a sex communeplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL that one of the largest makers of silverware in the world started out as a sex communeplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgLemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 7 hours agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Lemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 7 hours agoTIL, that the main 4 candidates in the 1976 us election, the 2 presidential candidates and the 2 vp candidates, have all lost a presidential election as their respective parties nominee.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL, that the main 4 candidates in the 1976 us election, the 2 presidential candidates and the 2 vp candidates, have all lost a presidential election as their respective parties nominee.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgLemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 7 hours agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Lemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 10 hours agoTIL researchers at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia recently created an artificial womb to help premature infants survive and thriveplus-squaremedschool.duke.eduexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1external-linkTIL researchers at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia recently created an artificial womb to help premature infants survive and thriveplus-squaremedschool.duke.eduLemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 10 hours agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Lemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 9 hours agoTIL about the Gospel of Eve, an almost entirely lost book from the New Testament apocrypha. Dating to the 2nd-6th century AD, an early Christian gnostic sect used it to justify free love and eatin...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL about the Gospel of Eve, an almost entirely lost book from the New Testament apocrypha. Dating to the 2nd-6th century AD, an early Christian gnostic sect used it to justify free love and eatin...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgLemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 9 hours agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Lemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 9 hours agoTIL Princess Anne of the British Royal family is the only member to have been convicted with a criminal offence. In 2002 she was charged and fined when one of her pet dogs attacked 2 childrenplus-squarenews.bbc.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL Princess Anne of the British Royal family is the only member to have been convicted with a criminal offence. In 2002 she was charged and fined when one of her pet dogs attacked 2 childrenplus-squarenews.bbc.co.ukLemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 9 hours agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Lemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 10 hours agoTIL there is a sport called “Snowmobile Skipping,” which involves driving snowmobiles on water vs. snow. The longest recorded “skip” is 112 miles, recorded in 2012 by a Norwegian named Morten Blien.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL there is a sport called “Snowmobile Skipping,” which involves driving snowmobiles on water vs. snow. The longest recorded “skip” is 112 miles, recorded in 2012 by a Norwegian named Morten Blien.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgLemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 10 hours agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Lemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 10 hours agoTIL the Beijing subway has 3.45 billion annual ridersplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL the Beijing subway has 3.45 billion annual ridersplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgLemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 10 hours agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Lemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 10 hours agoTIL that the word "second" (time) and "second" (placement) are the same, as it is the "second" division of an hour. Medieval sources show potential usage of "third" and "fourth" as well.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL that the word "second" (time) and "second" (placement) are the same, as it is the "second" division of an hour. Medieval sources show potential usage of "third" and "fourth" as well.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgLemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 10 hours agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Lemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 14 hours agoTIL there's over 30 million extant manuscripts in Sanskrit, the classical language of India. That's over a hundred times more than the number of extant manuscripts in Latin and Ancient Greek combi...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10
arrow-up13arrow-down1external-linkTIL there's over 30 million extant manuscripts in Sanskrit, the classical language of India. That's over a hundred times more than the number of extant manuscripts in Latin and Ancient Greek combi...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgLemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 14 hours agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Lemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 11 hours agoTIL that 2022 was the first year vinyl albums outsold CDs in the U.S. since 1987. 41 million vinyl albums were sold, compared to 33 million CDs. It was the 16th consecutive year of growth in vinyl...plus-squarewww.npr.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL that 2022 was the first year vinyl albums outsold CDs in the U.S. since 1987. 41 million vinyl albums were sold, compared to 33 million CDs. It was the 16th consecutive year of growth in vinyl...plus-squarewww.npr.orgLemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 11 hours agomessage-square0linkfedilink
Lemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 12 hours agoTIL Despite ornithologists believing birds are capable of burping, there is no documented evidence of a bird ever burpingplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL Despite ornithologists believing birds are capable of burping, there is no documented evidence of a bird ever burpingplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgLemmit.Online botMABEnglish · 12 hours agomessage-square0linkfedilink
