384TIL that Los Angeles is expanding a program paying people not to drive. If you agree to keep you car parked at home for 5 weeks and explore other ways to get around, you can earn up to $600 thesource.metro.netc/til · by daniel_callahan@jlai.lu · 1d · 94 comments
137TIL that the coffee filter was invented by a women in 1908 en.wikipedia.orgc/til · by Zwiebel@feddit.org · 12h · 20 comments
19TIL about the Bond Bug which is a small British two-seat, three-wheeled automobile manufactured in the 1970s en.wikipedia.orgc/til · by jaykrown@lemmy.world · 4h · 2 comments
408TIL Gabe Newell (CEO of Valve) bought and owns the megayachts company Oceanco en.wikipedia.orgc/til · by brachiosaurus@mander.xyz · 3d · 173 comments
160TIL about the Gordie Howe International Bridge which connects the USA to Canada near Detroit and that it was completed a week ago en.wikipedia.orgc/til · by jaykrown@lemmy.world · 3d · 26 comments
120TIL “ROOTS66,” a Japanese music festival open exclusively to musicians born in 1966—a year considered an “unlucky year” mainichi.jpc/til · by hoagecko@sh.itjust.works · 2d · 10 comments
70TIL that the US spans about 10% of the Earth's circumference c/til · by gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org · 3d · 29 comments
174Today i learned about Government cheese en.wikipedia.orgc/til · by gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org · 4d · 36 comments
307TIL you can get much better online prices using a public library computer c/til · by Jerry@feddit.online · 8d · 65 comments
-25Just found out tracking pixels have a 3-5x 60 days ROI improvado.ioc/til · by ranzispa@mander.xyz · 7d · 7 comments
84TIL that conflict between farmers and elephants in India brings an increased mortality rate for the farmers; their alcohol intake increases, which in turn increases the lethality of animal encounters en.wikipedia.orgc/til · by 58008@lemmy.world · 9d · 12 comments
189TIL while most ocean plastic comes from rivers, the majority of the waste in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is from fishing waste theoceancleanup.comc/til · by Artisian@lemmy.world · 9d · 9 comments
119TIL A "privacy-focused" ad-company owns Startpage, MapQuest c/til · by rounding_error@lemmy.today · 9d · 19 comments
-10TIL Eva Green has the most on screen time nude clocking in at 1,739 second or about 29 minutes. thebuzz.iheart.comc/til · by Patnou@lemmy.world · 10d · 7 comments
160TIL the 1980 Winter Olympic Village was built with the intention of converting it into a federal prison after the games ended. en.wikipedia.orgc/til · by Patnou@lemmy.world · 10d · 12 comments
22TIL an Event Horizon is a boundary in space time beyond which no signal can ever reach a given observer en.wikipedia.orgc/til · by Patnou@lemmy.world · 10d · 2 comments
3TIL the Dutch Wife was the first sex doll. That originated in a Dutch colony in Indonesia. urbandictionary.comc/til · by Patnou@lemmy.world · 10d · 0 comments
