Did you Know?

@very-rusty said
https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/raven-george

Which iconic London animals are enlisted as soldiers? Clue: If they are lost "the Crown will fall and Britain with it"

-VR

@shallow-blue said
Clue: if you have ever been to London, have ever read anything about London, or in fact are simply not an ignorant USAnian, you will know this and it is just not interesting any more.

Just like... well, 99.9% of this copy-paste, stolen by very-rusty from people who actually do the work, thread.

@very-rusty said
LOL@ shallow!

I am a ignorant USAnian?.....TOO funny.

@shallow-blue said
Close enough to think that that was an interesting "fact". So, much closer to a Yank than a German or Frenchman is to a Beefeater.

https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/peigneur-lake

From a 10ft deep freshwater lake to a 200ft deep saltwater lake in days. How did such an enormous change occur?

-VR

https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/masabumi-hosono

Masabumi Hosono was the only Japanese survivor on the Titanic. He received a shocking reaction when he returned home

-VR

https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/copperfield-robbery

In 2006, teens robbed a celebrity and his two assistants at gunpoint. They couldn't have chosen a worse target

-VR

-Removed-

https://www.didyouknowdaily.com/story/kintsugi

What is the Japanese process of 'Kintsugi'? Clumsy people, take note...

-VR