minus-squareradix@lemmy.worldtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL although the idea that Adam and Eve ate an apple is common, the Book of Genesis never mentions the identity of the forbidden fruit.linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·24 days agoChristians: God is Lawful Good. God: Actually more like Chaotic Neutral. linkfedilink
minus-squareradix@lemmy.worldtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL about Lloydminster, a Canadian town that lies within two provinces but is a single municipalitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agohttps://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20171105-the-us-canada-border-runs-through-this-tiny-library linkfedilink
minus-squareradix@lemmy.worldtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL: How Opioid sales quadrupled between 1999 and 2010, with 91 Americans dying daily from opioid overdoseslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agodeleted by creator linkfedilink
minus-squareradix@lemmy.worldtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that in 2014, a photographer tried to copyright a monkey's selfie and sue Wikipedia for it.linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·4 months agoAlso PETA got involved, because they’ve never seen an animal-centric story they couldn’t weasel themselves into. linkfedilink
radix@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoTIL ~62% of the atoms in a human body are Hydrogen, and are as old as the universe.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL ~62% of the atoms in a human body are Hydrogen, and are as old as the universe.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgradix@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square0fedilink
Christians: God is Lawful Good.
God: Actually more like Chaotic Neutral.