TIL that linguists estimate that at least half the world's 6,500 languages will become extinct in the next one hundred years. That means, on average, a language is dying about every two weeks [source, comments]

USA vs. The Rest of the World
So unterschiedlich pendeln Schweizer und Amerikaner zur Arbeit https://www.watson.ch/!866021497

TIL during the Falklands War the British Navy mistook whales for submarines and torpedoed them, killing three [source, comments]

Song of the Day 🧠🔫: https://open.spotify.com/track/5rPnv4gceOGKCqbN06F2aJ

Der Faschismus in Portugal – und wie mein Vater deswegen in ständiger Angst lebte https://www.watson.ch/!633352804

Hunderte Psychoanalytiker:innen wurden am basisdemokratisch organisierten Seminar schon ausgebildet. Jetzt droht es seine Anerkennung durch den Bund zu verlieren. https://www.woz.ch/!RSZ3X1Z2HP66

Mural in Geneva, Switzerland to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal on 25 April 1974.

The revolution began as a coup organized by left-wing Portuguese military officers, the Armed Forces Movement, which led to the end of the Estado Novo fascist regime, and sparked a popular civil resistance campaign. Negotiations with African independence movements began, and by the end of 1974, Portuguese troops were withdrawn from Guinea-Bissau, soon followed in 1975 by the independence of Cape Verde, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe and Angola in Africa and the declaration of independence of East Timor in Southeast Asia.