Dave Chapelle was right: "gay people are minorities until they need to be white again".

TIL that the Dukes of Hazzard had more black actors during it's 7 season run than Friends or Seinfeld. Both of which were notably based in New York City. [source, comments]

Facebook just reminded me that I couldn't go to work on this day 14 years ago because of Dmitri Medwedew. Then president of Russia.

Song of the day 😵⌛: https://spotify.link/0GxwfO4XgDb

TIL In the 1900s, German was the dominant language for science (thanks to Einstein, Planck, Heisenberg and others). It was only until mid 1990s that English firmly established itself as the main language. [source, comments]

TIL that in some parts of Ruhr region (Germany) the ground has sunk by up to 30m (12m in average) due to exzessive mining in the region. The homes of millions of people would be flooded if the pumps were stopped to keep the groundwater level artificially low. These pumps have to pump forever. [source, comments]