Mildly Interesting

The documents were sent by the German embassy in Tokyo and arrived in Argentina on 20 June 1941 inside 83 diplomatic pouches aboard a Japanese steamship, according to information gathered by court officials.

"Instead of using actual spray cans, some artists are just cleaning dirt off of certain areas to make their masterpieces and they are calling it reverse graffiti"

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Strippers might be predicting a recession.

Here is the article with the video

Although Transylvanian Naked Neck chickens look more like a Frankenstein cross between a chicken and a turkey, they are 100% chicken. This is how they got the name Turken, as many people truly believed that they were a Turkey Chicken crossbreed.

Snopes says it’s “Mostly true” in that they don’t know the origins of the color photo but the black and white one is authentic: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/frog-eyes-inside-mouth/

With legs built for speed and power, the Secretary bird hunts snakes by stomping them with a force of 195 Newtons, enough to kill in milliseconds.

A blog exploring why sentence lengths have been decreasing.

Doctors lifted out the mother's womb to perform the surgery to remove her tumor.

With bold patterns and vibrant colors, the Picasso Bug (Sphaerocoris annulus) looks like it walked right out of a painting.

'Unexplained' Colorado canyon is only one on planet with 2 creeks leaving in opposite directions

After being convicted, 7000 - 10000 people came to watch his hanging. Pieces of the rope were sold. The murder site became a tourist attraction and his skin was made into a cover for two books.

Just changing to a new numbering system when they run out.

Pig Island, also known as Big Major Cay, is a small uninhabited island in the Exuma archipelago in the Bahamas. It is famous for its unusual inhabitants: a colony of swimming pigs.

Kukur Tihar, also known as "Day of the Dogs,” is a Hindu festival in Nepal dedicated to honoring dogs.  It falls on the second day of Tihar, a five-day Hindu festival celebrated around October or November. 

The restaurant in rainforest-themed and offers a variety of novel dishes.

It announces the time in a clear voice. Fancy at this time.

There are only five well-documented fatal lightning strikes on giraffes between 1996 and 2010. But due to the population of the species being just 140,000 during this time, it makes for about 0.003 lightning deaths per thousand giraffes each year. This is 30 times the equivalent fatality rate for humans.

Dogxim, or Graxorra in Portuguese, was a female canid hybrid between a Pampas fox and a domesticated dog that was discovered in Brazil in 2021.

I love finding these random, old websites since the vast majority are just gone. It's a bummer that the family members' individual pages are no longer active, but this just had a time-capsule kind of charm to it.

The next time you encounter a complicated web of route options, remember a site called Rome2Rio.

Created in the 19th century by the French luthier Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, this colossal double bass stands out for its impressive height, exceeding three meters, and its deep tonal range, capable of producing notes that approach the lower limits of human hearing.

I always like these articles that question the common mindset and teach us something.

The original was posted on /r/mildlyinteresting by /u/MaddieGator on 2025-04-14 05:52:34+00:00.

What kind?

All I wanted to know was the maximum safe temperature :'(

The original was posted on /r/mildlyinteresting by /u/Spartcus3 on 2025-04-08 20:36:38+00:00.

It better taste good for that price.

The idea feels like sci-fi because you're so used to it, imagining ads gone feels like asking to outlaw gravity. But humanity had been free of current forms of advertising for 99.9% of its existence. Word-of-mouth and community networks worked just fine. First-party websites and online communities would now improve on that.

I was looking through some old vacation pictures and came across this one. It sure gives a perspective on how big these trees are.

He insists he did not regret his years working for the Kushners and other landlords. There was a system in place, and he had played a part in that system. “I honestly felt that if every attorney could have had the same philosophy and treated people fair and put people in the position to take control of their life,” he said, “then debt collectors wouldn’t be such bad people. They’d be assistants to people paying off their debts.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandweiler

Told her how i thought the world looked like when i was 9-10 and then we made a map on her current knowledge. Not to make fun of it, but for saving it for the future. Also, we are danish, not asian. We just like their culture, food and nature very much!

You can find some neat stuff that's normally buried under AI/page rank gaming slop, or not displayed at all anymore on your usual search engines. When you search something, scroll all the way down and you'll see an extensive list of Syntax and Special Keywords.

I don't know where else to post it ...

Don’t know if this needs to be here or at [email protected]

The original was posted on /r/mildlyinteresting by /u/AggravatingFail4552 on 2025-03-24 03:02:49+00:00.

Technically these are all still Latin leters, just that they're written in a weird way that evolved from middle-aged Gothic handwriting as opposed to Latin directly which was the case with English cursive. This style of writing, along with the print-oriented 𝔣𝔯𝔞𝔨𝔱𝔲𝔯, was abandoned for the Latin equivalent by the Nazis for logistical reasons in 1941.

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