enacademic.com TIL the Canadian province of British Columbia’s coat of arms (upon which its flag was based) originally had the Union Flag *beneath* the setting sun; it was flipped after several years when Queen Elizabeth II’s heralds pointed out “the sun never…

enacademic.com On September 13, 1967, firefighters in London, UK witnessed ''blowtorch-like'' flames bursting out of a hole in a man's stomach. They tried to douse the flames, but the man died of suffocation from breathing the fumes of his own Spontaneous…

enacademic.com TIL the country of Cambodia got its name from a tribe in ancient Afghanistan, almost 3,000 miles away. Indian colonizers brought the name with them in the first millennium A.D.

enacademic.com North American F-82F night fighter with radar pod beneath the center-wing

enacademic.com TIL There is a hallucination called "macrosomatognosia" which is the perception that ones own body parts feel bigger than they actually are. Likewise "microsomatognosia"is feeling that ones own body parts feel smaller than they actually are.