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TIL water bears are eight legged microanimals, among the most resilient animals known, able to survive extreme conditions — such as exposure to extreme temperatures, extreme pressures, air deprivation, radiation, dehydration, and starvation — that would quickly kill most other known forms of life.

by whatilearned July 30, 2022, 12:47 am

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TIL during the 1942 blockade of Leningrad, where starvation was utilised as a siege strategy, those convicted of cannibalism were divided into two legal categories: corpse-eating and person-eating. The former were sent to prison, while the latter were shot.

by whatilearned July 28, 2022, 11:02 am

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TIL: The British built over 100 concentration camps during the Second Boer War (1899–1902) in South Africa. Over 26,000 woman & children died in these camps from starvation & disease

by whatilearned June 26, 2022, 11:22 am

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TIL about Sokushinbutsu, a practice of self-mummification observed by Japanese Buddhist monks. The monks would follow a strict starvation diet until abstaining from eating altogether in order to lose as much body fat and moisture as possible. They would finally be locked in a tomb while still alive.

by whatilearned June 15, 2022, 11:14 pm

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TIL that the green revolution of the 1950s and 60s led to the widespread reduction–and in some places elimination–of famine and food insecurity. One leading figure in the revolution, Norman Borlaug, is credited with saving at least 1 billion people from starvation.

by whatilearned June 15, 2022, 1:46 pm

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TIL that the adult Luna moth has no mouth and will die of starvation. With only 1 week to live as an adult, it’s entire purpose is to procreate in that short time.

by whatilearned June 1, 2022, 3:13 pm

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TIL of the Goa Inquisition in Portuguese India which enforced Catholic Orthodoxy from 1561 to 1812. Primary targets were Hindus who were forced to convert under imprisonment and starvation. All records were destroyed by the Portuguese in 1812 and exact number of casualties still remain unknown today

by whatilearned June 1, 2022, 10:09 am

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TIL where astronauts sleep on a space station has to be extremely well ventilated with a constant flow of air over them. Warm air does not rise in space so astronauts in badly-ventilated sections end up surrounded by a bubble of their own exhaled carbon dioxide, the result being oxygen starvation.

by whatilearned May 16, 2022, 11:02 am

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How true to reality is Semenov’s novel about starvation in Petrograd during Russia’s Civil War in 1919?

by HistoryBuff April 27, 2022, 9:35 am

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Bono started clapping slowly between songs during a U2 concert. “Every time I clap my hands a child in Africa dies from starvation”, he told the audience

by cringeyjokesman April 11, 2022, 10:02 pm

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TIL the mother of the last Comanche chief was a white woman who was kidnapped at age 9 & assimilated into the tribe. She later married a chieftain & bore him 3 children before she was found at age 33 & returned to her bio-family. She never accepted white society & committed suicide by starvation.

by whatilearned March 11, 2022, 12:59 pm

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TIL that during the Soviet imposed agricultural collectivization of 1932-33, an estimated 5.7-8.7 million people died from starvation, the vast majority of which were from Ukraine (4-7 million). This led to the event being called the Holodomor, which means “to kill by starvation.”

by whatilearned February 10, 2022, 11:40 pm

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