Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · edit-21 year 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-square0fedilinkarrow-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 · edit-21 year agomessage-square0fedilink
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · edit-21 year 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-square0fedilinkarrow-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-21 year agomessage-square0fedilink
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 1 year 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-square0fedilinkarrow-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 · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 1 year agoTIL treadmills originated as a form of punishment in prisonsplus-squarewww.mentalfloss.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL treadmills originated as a form of punishment in prisonsplus-squarewww.mentalfloss.comUllallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 1 year 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-square0fedilinkarrow-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 · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 1 year agoTIL that no one knows what the "p" in "pH" stands forplus-squarewww.nature.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL that no one knows what the "p" in "pH" stands forplus-squarewww.nature.comUllallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 1 year agoTIL the Soviet Union still produced advertisements, often of fake products, to make itself look more prosperousplus-squarewww.rbth.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-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 · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 1 year agoTIL Big Bird's puppeteer navigates by a TV inside the suit, showing what is being recorded by the camerawww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL Big Bird's puppeteer navigates by a TV inside the suit, showing what is being recorded by the camerawww.youtube.comUllallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
seirim@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoTIL that Civilloquy.com is an instance, haplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareTIL that Civilloquy.com is an instance, haplus-squareseirim@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
Senseibull@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year 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-square0fedilinkarrow-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 · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
Ullallulloo@civilloquy.comMEnglish · 1 year 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-square0fedilinkarrow-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 · 1 year agomessage-square0fedilink
