TIL Africa accounts for just 3% of the world's trade [source, comments]

TIL use of the German flag outside of sporting events is rare due to German flag waving being associated with with Nazi Germany and nationalism [source, comments]

Song of the day 😇😈: https://open.spotify.com/track/1f7eBRPgFfKPhqMU7z31yF?si=ibC-uJMnTLax7gnKhej5qw

damn

TIL that Wincanton, in Somerset, UK is twinned with Ankh-Morpork--a fictitious town from Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" series of books--and that the town is the first to name streets after their fictional equivalents. [source, comments]

Song of the day 🍚💔: https://youtu.be/yiG9EYCzBe8?feature=shared

And here's the link to the research in English: https://www.carbonbombs.org/

TIL the work Alan Turing and others worked on at Bletchley Park is estimated to have shortened World War 2 in Europe by over two years and saved over 14 million lives. [source, comments]

TIL that when casting Walter White for Breaking Bad, the role was originally offered to John Cusack and Matthew Broderick. It wasn't until after they turned it down that the executives saw Bryan Cranstons X-Files episode and cast him for the role. [source, comments]

TIL Confucius believed people would naturally follow and support the virtuous ruler without needing harsh laws and spent 12 years traveling around China looking for a ruler who would listen to his ideas. He never found one [source, comments]

Capitalism breeds innovation