Jump to main content Jump to sidebar
Home Postmill
  • Forums
  • Wiki
  • Log in
  • Sign up
  • Submissions
  • Comments
    • Featured
    • All
    • Hot
    • New
    • Active
    • Top
    • Controversial
    • Most commented

TIL that in Chinese Folk Religion, a mortal human being could ascend into godhood not through the decisions of a clergy/church, but by the sheer number of people who believe that their extraordinary achievements led to apotheosis, which forced Confucian/Taoists clerics to canonize a person as a God.

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by Khysamgathys t3_124n0s0 on March 28, 2023 at 12:20 PM in todayilearned

  • 204 comments
6,490 loading

TIL The people giving out free samples at Costco do not work for Costco but a separate company

clubdemo.com

Submitted by CA_Mini t3_11vxu3i on March 19, 2023 at 9:10 PM in todayilearned

  • 31 comments
148 loading

TIL about lava crickets, crickets that make their home in cooled lava and drink seafoam to survive

atlasobscura.com

Submitted by _Ping_- t3_126x70r on March 30, 2023 at 7:44 PM in todayilearned

  • 9 comments
118 loading

TIL that Nokia has been in business since 1865.

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by flightofthenochords t3_11suxqv on March 16, 2023 at 1:58 PM in todayilearned

  • 9 comments
107 loading

TIL about the Straw Hat Riot of 1922 in NYC due to taunting people who had failed to stop wearing straw hats after autumn began

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by LocalChamp t3_122z2hh on March 26, 2023 at 8:48 PM in todayilearned

  • 15 comments
95 loading

TIL id Software’s first attempt at a first-person shooter game - before Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, or even Catacomb 3-D - was Hovertank 3D, a vehicular combat FPS released for MS-DOS in 1991.

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by astrodomekid t3_127988c on March 31, 2023 at 3:47 AM in todayilearned

  • 9 comments
91 loading

TIL that the colony of Eider Ducks on the Farne Islands in Northumberland, England were the subject of one of the first ever bird protection laws, established by Saint Cuthbert in the year 676.

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by AspireAgain t3_11h6k1p on March 3, 2023 at 5:14 PM in todayilearned

  • 11 comments
239 loading

TIL Little Caesar's pizza used to have an arcade themed restaurant named Caesarland which contained arcade games and play equipment

newspapers.com

Submitted by Forgeworld t3_1284hy8 on March 31, 2023 at 11:57 PM in todayilearned

  • 1 comment
76 loading

TIL: A Mambo No. 5 cover by Bob the Builder went to number 1 in the UK on 9th September 2001, but was removed from BBC radio playlists after the 9/11 attacks as it was ‘too frivolous’

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by gnomageddon7 t3_120k3o0 on March 24, 2023 at 1:21 PM in todayilearned

  • 66 comments
1,172 loading

TIL Poland uses clams to test their water supply

zmescience.com

Submitted by Zrgaloin t3_11h30tj on March 3, 2023 at 3:07 PM in todayilearned

  • 18 comments
125 loading

TIL children were most prone to lead poisoning because lead chips and toys with lead dust tasted "sweet".

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by WhatA_Nerd t3_126y2je on March 30, 2023 at 8:19 PM in todayilearned

  • 43 comments
326 loading

TIL that William Daniels, famous for playing Mr. Feeney on "Boy Meets World," has been married to to actress and fellow Emmy Award winner Bonnie Bartlett since June 30, 1951; at more than 71 years, it is the longest active Hollywood marriage as of today.

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by arrogant_ambassador t3_126adge on March 30, 2023 at 3:43 AM in todayilearned

  • 59 comments
1,142 loading

TIL that on top of the 3 matters of state that we’re all familiar with (solid, liquid, gas), there are at least 24 more, though most only exist under extreme conditions

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by gianthooverpig t3_127qfwj on March 31, 2023 at 4:14 PM in todayilearned

  • 30 comments
179 loading

TIL that Deltora Quest, the Children's Fantasy Books by Australian Writer Emily Rodda, Has Its Own Anime, Which Started Airing 2 Years After the Series Ended, from 2007-2008, and has 13 Episodes of Original Content Not Found in the Books. It Even Spawned a Nintendo DS Game, Released Only in Japan.

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by PrecariouslyPeculiar t3_11yay63 on March 22, 2023 at 7:34 AM in todayilearned

  • 8 comments
57 loading

TIL among the official HTTP client error response codes (like "404: Not Found"), status code "418: I'm a teapot" is the code used to indicate that the server refuses to brew coffee because it is, permanently, a teapot.

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by lofzfreak t3_1282qj1 on March 31, 2023 at 10:56 PM in todayilearned

  • 2 comments
234 loading

TIL the Japanese government launched Sake Viva, a contest to encourage young people to drink more and so boost tax revenues.

npr.org

Submitted by penguinopusredux t3_127aun6 on March 31, 2023 at 5:07 AM in todayilearned

  • 14 comments
121 loading

TIL about the void that forms under certain trees when it snows, called tree wells. The upper branches of the tree prevents snow from falling below it, creating a pocket that is a serious peril for skiers & snow boarders. Several die every year from falling head first into these voids.

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by Roguecop t3_1280l2q on March 31, 2023 at 9:43 PM in todayilearned

  • 35 comments
1,584 loading

TIL: About Earth trojans. Two asteroids that share our orbit, leading us around the sun.

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by RevolutionaryAd94 t3_127r6hx on March 31, 2023 at 4:39 PM in todayilearned

  • 9 comments
103 loading

TIL in order to prevent certain legal instruments from operating in perpetuity, a Royal Lives Clause may be written into a contract which provides a definite but extended period of time usually tied to twenty-one years past the death of last living descendent of the current British monarch.

mondaq.com

Submitted by AudibleNod t3_126ldrd on March 30, 2023 at 12:23 PM in todayilearned

  • 17 comments
170 loading

TIL that Prince is credited for “discovering” Carmen Electra when she began her career as a singer after moving to Minneapolis where they met and he produced her self-titled debut studio album, released in 1993.

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by puzzledplatypus t3_11rzb49 on March 15, 2023 at 3:13 PM in todayilearned

  • 76 comments
505 loading

TIL about Saint-Malo, Brittany. This city on the French coast has some of the highest tides in Europe, rising as high as 40 feet during parts of the year, and the water withdrawing hundreds of yards. A sea wall, built in the 17th century, protects the city from the tides.

france.fr

Submitted by marmorset t3_11stv48 on March 16, 2023 at 1:15 PM in todayilearned

  • 16 comments
107 loading

TIL that Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Peter Cushing were all a part of London's "Ghost Club," which looked for scientific evidence of paranormal activity.

shop.minimuseum.com

Submitted by paleopuzzler t3_11gcd1k on March 2, 2023 at 8:02 PM in todayilearned

  • 7 comments
54 loading

TIL that Australia's longest serving aircraft carrier never fired a shot in anger during her service, but did kill over 150 Allied soldiers in two separate accidental ramming incidents

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by nyckidd t3_121r7la on March 25, 2023 at 4:34 PM in todayilearned

  • 22 comments
159 loading

TIL Joanna Lee, one of the actresses in Plan Nine From Outer Space, went on to create the after-school special format and won an Emmy for writing an episode of The Waltons.

variety.com

Submitted by DoubleTFan t3_124m7b1 on March 28, 2023 at 11:45 AM in todayilearned

  • 13 comments
171 loading

TIL "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps" is an example of an impossible task. The idiom dates at least to 1834, from the Workingman's Advocate: "It is conjectured that Mr. Murphee will now be enabled to hand himself over the Cumberland river or a barn yard fence by the straps of his boots.

en.wikipedia.org

Submitted by meat-juice t3_11gbneo on March 2, 2023 at 7:34 PM in todayilearned

  • 97 comments
1,963 loading
  • More

Running Postmill