TIL that a 2-year-old boy named Awaab Ishak died in the UK in 2020 from mould in his social housing flat, despite his parents complaining for 3 years. His death led to "Awaab's Law," which now legally forces landlords to fix dangerous hazards within days or face unlimited fines (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted by freeradioforall
TIL aircraft designer Nicholas Comper went outside to light fireworks. A passerby asked what he was doing, as a practical joker he replied he was an IRA man blowing up the town hall. The passerby knocked him down. He hit his head on the curb, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died later in hospital (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that Nintendo game designer Gunpei Yokoi conceived the idea of the Game & Watch (the company’s first handheld) while watching a businessman idly press buttons on his pocket calculator while riding the train. This moment led to the invention of the D-Pad and, by proxy, the modern gaming industry. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL about the Giant-impact hypothesis, according to which, about 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized object called Theia collided with Earth. Huge amounts of debris were blasted into orbit around Earth, which formed a disk. Over time, gravity pulled that material together, thus forming the Moon. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL, the kings daughters were the approximately 800 young French women who immigrated to Quebec from 1665-1673 to marry French colonists and lead to the birth of French children in the colony. Today 10m+ French Canadians exist, most of whom are descendants of these 800 women. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, while relations between the Ottoman Empire and Japan were strong, Ottoman sultan and caliph Abdul Hamid II feared that Emperor Meiji of Japan would become a rival by converting to Islam and declaring himself caliph. (en.wikipedia.org)
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