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- TIL Mount Everest is named after Sir George Everest despite him having zero connection to the mountain (he never even saw it) and against his own wishes. He objected to the naming on the grounds that “Everest” could not be easily written in Hindi nor pronounced by the local people.
- Dad encourages his son to play piano in a crowded airport. You can tell he doesn’t push, he encourages based on trust and it warmed my heart.
- Bernese Mountain Dog Refuses To Come Inside When Its Snowing
- This ENORMOUS mountain of Saffron in a Bazar in Tehran
- Mountain glacier melting is linked to shifting westerlies and likely to accelerate
- Cautionary tale or happy ending? Factors that make a difference in difficult mountain rescue efforts
- Just my dog and I atop a mountain.
- Ellen Ripley in the movie Alien (1979) was originally written to be a man. Director Ridley Scott changed his mind when he watched The Hunger Games (2012) and realized that women can also be action movie leads
- TIL Warren Buffett bought Berkshire Hathaway purely out of spite. In the 60s it was a failing textiles company which he wanted to sell his stake in. When its president lowballed him, he bought the whole company just to fire him. In 2010, he said it was the biggest investment mistake he ever made.
- Wendy Sherman doesn’t rule out U.S. giving Ukraine weapons to target Russian military in Crimea
- A type of simple, DIY air filter can be an effective way to filter out indoor air pollutants
- People Can Now Carry Guns Without A License In Half Of America’s States
- An archivist found a long forgotten 8mm film reel in an old metal box, marked “Philipines 1942”. Thinking it was lost WWII footage, he sent it in to be restored/digitized. When he got the footage back, he found puppies instead.
- Sadio Mané, the Senegalese Bayern Munich football player is transforming Bambaly, his native Senegal village: He built an hospital, a school and he is paying 80 euros a month all its citizens. Recently he installed a 4G network and built a postal office.
- Workers are less likely to go on strike in recent decades because they are more likely to be in debt and fear losing their jobs. Study examined cases in Japan, Korea, Sweden, the United States and the United Kingdom over the period 1970–2018.
