todayilearned

TIL in 2003, the remote island country of Nauru had no contact with the outside world for weeks as telecom systems were cut off. This was due to economic & political chaos, with the president being replaced so frequently that the BBC was unsure who the president was during the telecom outage.

By skyforbes No Comments

TIL in 2003, the remote island country of Nauru had no contact with the outside world for weeks as telecom systems were cut off. This was due to economic & political chaos, with the president being replaced so frequently that the BBC was unsure who the president was during the telecom outage.

By skyforbes

Related Posts

todayilearned

TIL about The Wrecking Crew, a group of recording session musicians who served as the backing group for hundreds of top 40 hits in the 60s and 70s. They’re widely regarded as the most prolific and successful session musicians ever

skyforbes
todayilearned

TIL On July 4th, 1826, 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, the second President of the United States, John Adams, died with his last words being, “Thomas Jefferson survives.” However, Adams was unaware that third President Thomas Jefferson had died earlier that day.

skyforbes
todayilearned

TIL that pigeon’s brain is no bigger than the tip of our index finger, still pigeons are actually smarter than a 3-year-old child. Research has proven that pigeons can actually tell the difference between a Monet and Picasso as well as recognize themselves in the mirror.

skyforbes

Leave a Reply

You Missed

Trending

Cocona from XG comes out as nonbinary in their Birthday post today

Windows

Alternative to stardock fences (open source)

Linux

Has there been some kind of update to canvas/image/rasterization/gui libraries that has made dragging faster? Why is everything performing better suddenly?

GeminiAI

Tim Ferris’ inspired Prompt that saves me as a grad student at CMU