Similarly, Argentina got its name from its originally rich silver mines. I can imagine it’s obvious to people who live there, but I only read about it a year or two ago, despite having known the latin name since learning about the periodic table.

He’s been found guilty of another 72 things already. You could take a video of him beheading someone with a teaspoon and he would still stay in his seat for some mind boggling reason.

Ahhahaha, thank you for checking, brave citizen! It’s not in English, but mostly translates to that; you 2 could make sibling websites.

This reminds me of the previous head editor of one of the largest media sites in my country. His hobby was to buy various odd/banal domains just in case they become useful one day. Sites like (the language’s equivalent of) fartingcontest.com.

EDIT: I just realised that the URL got automatically turned into a clickable link, and I’m too much of a pussy to check it out.

While that’s informative and was genuinely interesting: is this really TIL material? There are plenty of communities where this fits perfectly, but I feel like there has been an increase of political posts disguised as TIL, just because oh I just read about this.

I wonder if that will only stop the ads being personalized or the data collection will also stop. My bet is on the former, but I hope I’m wrong.

Al Fresco is beautifully ironic.

Wait until you hear about flies from the farm.

As a non-native, I was a bit too old to find the lyrics and get them. After that, it was quite weird to me, but apart from the name being a bit off, I never heard of Gorky Park before.

When I told my colleagues about my surprise when I found out The Scorpions were German, none, but none of them had any idea what band I was talking about.