Thread by @WolfofX

You'll learn something new from this thread today.

1. On the morning of Jan. 19, 1977, something very unusual happened in South Florida: It snowed.

2. Mijaín López, a Greco-Roman wrestler, is the first athlete ever to win five consecutive gold medals in the same event

3. Nyakim Gatwech is a South Sudanese model who is known as the Queen of the Dark because of her very dark skin, a result of high levels of melanin.

4. In South Korea, the solar panels in the middle of the highway have a bicycle path underneath..cyclists are protected from the sun, isolated from traffic, and the country can produce clean energy

5. In Norway it is required by law to apply a standardized label to all advertising in which body shape, size, or skin is altered through retouching or other manipulation.

6. Never knew these big American cities were so close together.

7. In September 1983, Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov received a message that 5 nuclear missiles had been launched by the U.S. and were heading to Moscow. He didn't launch a retaliatory strike, believing correctly that it was a false alarm.

8. German and Austrian traffic laws require drivers to form an emergency vehicle lane (Rettungsgasse) on the autobahn when traffic halts, allowing ambulances, fire trucks, and police to pass.

9. Star Wars Episode I:The Phantom Menace. Model maker Michael Lynch created a mock crowd by cutting and painting 450,000 cotton swabs. To simulate cheering, filmmakers placed fans beneath the setup

10. "The Uncensored Library" is a huge Minecraft map where anyone can read censored journalism from countries without freedom of press

11. There is an island in the Pacific called Yap that uses circular stones as currency. The stones are too large to move so the ownership of the stones is passed by word of mouth to transact business.

12. There is a pink color lake in Australia

The pink color is due to Dunaliella salina, a halophilic and extremophilic algae that produces carotenoids, giving it an orange, red, or pink hue.

13. "Lonely fan", 23-year-old, Tiago Rech was the only fan at his team's stadium in a game in 2012. In 2014 he became the club president and in 2020 they've won the FGF cup and classified for Copa do Brasil for the first time in the history of the club.

14. Princess Diana's Grave is isolated on the island in the middle of an ornamental lake

15. Adam Rainer was the only person in recorded history to have been both a dwarf and a giant in one lifetime

16. There is a huge canal-style pool, shared by almost 300 different villas in the Guangdong province of China.

17. Venus fly traps put their flowers really far away from their traps so they don't accidentally kill their pollinators

18. Animal Planet reality series ‘River Monsters’ ended because star Jeremy Wade was able to catch essentially every exceptionally large freshwater fish species on earth, leaving no remaining content for the show

19. When snails hatch, they eat the shells of their eggs. This gives them needed calcium for their own shells.

20. This is FBI agent Robert Hanssen. He was tasked to find a mole within the FBI after the FBI's moles in the KGB were caught. Robert Hanssen was the mole and had been working with the KGB since 1979.

21. Today I learned there's a sport called cycleball

22. The Door of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory In California.

This photo from 1979 shows a Laboratory employee opening the world's heaviest hinged door, which was eight feet thick, nearly twelve feet wide, and weighed 97,000 pounds

23. There is a tribe in India that has learned to make living bridges out of ficus tree roots. The bridges take 15-30 years to complete. Mature bridges stretch 15 to 250 feet over deep rivers and gorges, and can bear impressive loads—upwards of 35 people at a time.

24. Found in Sri Lanka, this male adult Elephant was the first scientific record of dwarfism in the wild. He measures at just over 1.5 meters (five feet) in height

🚨 IMPORTANT: Although the first picture is from North Florida, it did snow in South Florida in 1977. Most notably, the weather system brought snow flurries as far south as Homestead on January 19. While other portions of the state have experienced snowfall since, no snow has fallen in South Florida since then.

Hopefully everybody who is commenting only about the first picture and not reading the other 29 posts, can understand this ♥️