Today, you will learn there's a subreddit called "Today I Learned" (TIL).
Even if you already know about this online community from my earlier articles (here, here, and here), I think you're gonna enjoy this one!
TIL is a place with a simple premise: everyone shares interesting facts they discover on the Internet. And sure, it's no Britannica, but the most important rule on the subreddit is that the facts must be legit and the online community has 26.1 million members self-governing its content, so you know what you're reading is true.
Plus, they usually attach corresponding photos to make the content more vivid and easier to digest as well. Here are some of the posts that recently went viral on the subreddit. Enjoy!
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TIL the chemical reaction in glow sticks was discovered by Dr. Edwin Chandross in 1962, but he had no idea the "chemiluminescent" objects were popular at music shows until a Vice interview in 2013. "Is that so?" he said. "Maybe my granddaughter will think I'm cool now."
Sad that he's not getting paid! Clearly if he isn't aware, the checks aren't reaching him. As for the granddaughter, sounds like a cheeky joke to me
Load More Replies...Would be cool to send him videos of people having fun with glow sticks, so he can see the joy he's brought to people.
Imagine if he could only even begin to fathom the amount of joy he’s given to millions of people around the world over the years, pay checks aside
TIL after a chance encounter, Charles-Michel de l'Épée was taught to sign by the deaf. Believing the deaf should be able to receive the sacraments, he founded a school in 1760 to teach sign language. His public advocacy enabled deaf people to legally defend themselves in court for the first time
Note though that l'Épée’s sign language system wasn’t popular among his students and they didn‘t use it much out of school. (Reason being that is was very cumbersome, requiring up to five signs for a single word.)
He looks like a haunted baby, but what he did is such as phenomenal thing. We need more hearing folks sticking up and defending the rights of deaf individuals.
It's harder for people who have never had hearing to spell words: it's all memorization (not being able to hear the differences in sound each letter makes). Also, in the 1700s very few people could write OR read.
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TIL a 2018 study by Yale psychologists found introverts who are prone to melancholy seem to be more astute at understanding how people behave in groups than their sociable peers. Introverts are more prone to assessing truths about humans’ “social nature” without formal training or tools
I'm developing a new fragrance for introverts. I'm going to call it leave me the fuh cologne!
Let me assess with my non-formal introvert training that you must be an extrovert. 😁
Load More Replies...And eavesdrop. People watching and eavesdropping are some of my favorite activities.
Load More Replies...I'd say it's the other way around: People who are better at assessing how groups of people behave are more likely to aviod them
This is actually really interesting and it made me realize that I do in fact do that.
me too i figured this but my low self esteem wouldnt allow me to acknowledge
Load More Replies...I'm pretty good at this. Unfortunately, no one listens to me when I give suggestions or predictions.
Yeah, because they are more empathic. You don't need a study to know that
Some of the responses here don't demonstrate much empathy...
Load More Replies...That's me. An introvert with melancholy. Once my kids flies the next I'm planning on going full hermit.
TIL that the jumping spider, Nefertiti, was launched to the ISS to observe if it could catch prey in microgravity. It succeeded in catching prey by learning to walk slowly, rather than leaping, as this species usually does. It survived reentry and readjusted to full gravity before its natural death
I'm so glad I'm not alone in thinking these little guys are freaking UH-dorable!!
Load More Replies...Admit it, you found a spider on board and wanted to find a way to charge the government for it
Let’s face m, that spider has had a more adventurous life than most of us. Sigh. Godspeed
I'm happy that unlike some stories of animals being launched into space, Nefertiti survived the mission. Jumping spiders generally live 1 year, she lived for 10 months, which is pretty close to her full lifespan.
... Doesn't seem fair... Nefertiti adds to what humans know... Humans reduce her lifespan by 16.66%..... bummer....
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TIL Tag brothers are a group of 10 men who had been playing the game of tag since 1990, chasing each other around the country, traveling by plane, car etc. As of 2018, the game is still ongoing
I know the guy in the red hat, Patrick. To be clear, they only play one month of each year, in February.
You mean they don't do this as a full-time-job? whodathought 😉
Load More Replies...I think the guy in the blue shirt at the front with his hand on the other guy's shoulder is tagging him!
Load More Replies...they made a movie called "tag". jeremy rennet, john hamm, jake johnson, and ed helms are all in it!
and as can be seen on the photo, the guy in blue shirt was "it" but now the guy in the black shirt is "it"
For a Decade...My granddaughters and I have been playing a game of "Tag" using the phrase 🎼🎶"Boots and Pants &👢👢&👖👖"🎵🎶 from a "Worst Commercial Ever" contest. In person, on the phone, texts, letters & cards. They're now teenagers, I hope they'll keep playing with me🤞😻🙏
TIL A director made a ten hour movie that's just about paint on a wall drying, lasting for ten hours and seven minutes. The film was created by Charlie Lyne in order to troll the British Board of Film Classification (B.B.F.C.) who were forced to sit through the whole thing
The wall was nominated for 'Best SUPPORTING actor'. It's was a solid performance!
He was protesting the cost of the censorship board, which made it harder for smaller films to be released to the public. No BBFC rating, no release, and I don't remember the details of the fees but apparently they made getting a movie out into the world prohibitively expensive for indi filmmakers. The BBFC had to watch every single minute of the film to give it the rating, which was roughly equivalent to the G-PG-M-R content ratings in North America, so... 10 hours of paint drying to try and make a point
And the they broke it down into parts and released it as Twilight series.
But Disney sued them for plagiarism since they used this format for all their series.
Load More Replies..."... How will they get out of this predicament? Watch the conclusion in part 2: Wall-dry, the sequel. coming to theatres next summer"
Is it available on youtube? I might have to watch it when I'm on one of my more boring meetings. :D
Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpk4q_Zo2ws
Load More Replies...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzRGwrGjNGc The link to the trailer.
TIL of eagle hunters in Mongolia. Known as the Burkitshi, this nomadic tribe hunts with eagles (only female eagles as they are larger and believed to be fiercer). While eagles can live for decades, theirs are captured at the age of four and released after 10 years to live out their life in the wild.
In Dubai/Qatar, it is the same thing but with vultures. I have been on planes with people who have vultures on their arms. The birds are very well behaved.
Are you sure you mean vultures? Falcons maybe
Load More Replies...Seems all "indigenous" people have the respect for the rights of other beings that the so-called 'civilized' lack.
Not necessarily. Humans have been horrible to animals since forever.
Load More Replies...Mongolians had the sense to know that locking all the birds in cages was bad for the birds.
Can the eagles adapt to living free after 10 years of captivity? It sounds doubious
Yes they can. They don't domesticate easily. And they are literally used to hunt. Their predatory instincts stay the same
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TIL that Charles D. B. King holds the record for the most fraudulent election in history. In 1927 he was elected President of Liberia with 234,000 votes in a country that only had 15,000 registered voters at the time
Nope. The record for the most fraudulent election goes to someone who was so good at dishonesty that he never got caught.
Too bad Trump was too incompetent to even cheat properly. He coulda been a contender.
If only he wasn’t black trump would adopt him as his mentor immediately.
TIL the big orange fuel tank attached to the space shuttles was originally white, but they stopped painting it to save 600lbs
It is. The paint on race cars is thinner than those produced for the consumer market.
Load More Replies...That's why they stopped painting airplanes in WWII. Less weight meant better performance. Of course the cost savings and faster production didn't hurt either.
This is the same reason American Airlines planes are not painted except for the livery stripes and logo
TIL about the 71 teenage students, who were stationed to protect a South Korean HQ, despite having no experience in war or even firing a gun. The SK army didn’t think the NK army would attack that HQ, but they did. Those students, still in their school uniforms, held back the NK army for 11 hours
Thank you, i was about to ask in which year this took place. It was in August, 1950.
Load More Replies...We have been practising since prehistoric times. You know, practice makes perfect.
Load More Replies...Did the North Koreans leave after 11 hours... or win? They can't leave the story there!
Load More Replies...That's what British amd American did in World wars, how is it any different?
TIL I learned the first American soldier to land on the beach durning the invasion of Normandy was shot twice and not only survived, but lived to be 90 years old
Hal Baumgarten tops them all. Saving himself from drowning, he was one of the only two men from his Company B who survived the landing after others who didn’t drown were mowed down by German machineguns. When general Bradley saw the carnage, he ordered that no more troops land on that part of Omaha beach. So, Baumgarten was left on his own. Breaking his way through, he was wounded two times on June 6. First, an 88-millimeter shell went in front of him. It blew off his left cheek and made a hole in the roof of his mouth, teeth and gum laying on his tongue. He continued fighting, getting wounded once more on June 6. The next day, a mortar shell gave him three more head wounds, his helmet saving him from death. After they broke through German lines at the beach, his unit walked straight into another German ambush. He was shot in the face by an MG-42...
...He lied in the ditch along with 6 other killed GIs until early morning the next day, before he was found and rescued by other American troops. However, his ordeal wasn't over. After being rescued, he was shot once more in the right knee by a German sniper, while on stretchers. Just as the German sniper was to take Baumgarten out for good, USS McCook, came off shore “scraping the bottom”, wiping out the snipers with 5-inch guns at the last moment. He lived to be 91.
Load More Replies...My father-in-law, as part of the 29th Division, 116, G Company landed on Omaha Beach in the first wave of men. He fought until the end of the war, earning several metals including a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. He later, participating in the Incheon Invasion and fought through the end of the "conflict," earning several Bronze Stars and a second Purple Heart. Still later, he served in Vietnam as a sniper "before we were there." No metals because this was before the US was involved so there is no record he was there; his service records show he was in Germany. However, he has photos at several easily recognized Vietnamese land marks.
TIL after an earthquake shattered the Colossi of Memnon in Egypt, the damaged statue began to "sing" during sunrise which modern scientists attribute to early morning heat causing dew trapped within the statue’s crack to evaporate creating vibrations that echoed through the desert air.
There's some noise in the mornings from dew trapped in my crack too.
We did a 'sunrise hot air balloon ride, over the river Nile'. We kept gaining and loosing altitude so quickly I was beginning to wonder if it was the pilots first time. My wife was petrified the whole time. Our basket of death landed hard, in the middle of a road, no more that 20 metres from the one on the left. The police (who were following our rapid descent) tore the pilot a new one for breaking altitude rules and arrested him. We sat under these statue for 2 hours while waiting for the balloon company to find us, giving my wife plenty of time to consider the afterlife we almost found ourselves in. Good job I had my Anubis amulet with me!
Hahahahaha basket of death! I'm glad you made it, thank you for the great story. This is novel material.
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TIL research found that 94% of British people said they had conversed about the weather in the past six hours, and 38% said they had in the past 60 minutes. This means at any moment in the UK, a third of the population is either talking about the weather, has already done so or are about to do so
The weather still governs so much of what we do. We want to know if we go out now, whether we need suncream or an umbrella. It changes from hour to hour. If we had wall to wall sunshine, we'd probably talk about it less. It's currently overcast but brightening BTW. :D
Unexpectedly warm though for the time of year. Everyone will have trouble sleeping tonight.
Load More Replies...Only 94%? On such a hot day here in the UK, I find that hard to believe. 😉
I can testify m that in 5 years if living there, weather was a main feature if conversation. Since it rained with so much frequency, it was a bit surprising
It’s a good neutral topic for polite chit chat as it is something anyone can comment on without causing offence and everyone experiences it so no one is left out of the conversation.
The lab I work in is basically a cave, but I live in a subtropical environment, so it's common for us to ask each other if it's raining or not.
I guess these numbers are similar for the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.
Germany most commonly small talk is about the weather. I never had nobody asking me how much population or how big my country have /is as in Germany.
TIL astronauts need to sleep near air vents or risk carbon dioxide from their own lungs forming a bubble around their head due to weightlessness
..and the aliens always attack by crawling along the air vents. So, I ain't sleeping on no space ship.
I'm surprised at this, as in a room with ventilation, our own CO2 does not form a lake at ground level (CO2 being heavier than air), so I imagined that CO2 would natually be circulated round the ISS as the air is constantly being cleaned of CO2. Does this mean it has a tendancy to form clumps, like water?
The key is that you're talking about rooms with ventilation. And yes, CO2 clumps.
Load More Replies...Nooo! This makes space travel seem a lot less glamorous.
Load More Replies...Different sensors or different timezones I presume.
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TIL Los Angeles is the first major city in the world to synchronize all its traffic lights. Nearly 4,400 lights across 469 miles receive real-time updates about traffic flow to make second-by-second adjustments. The system limits congestion by up to 16% while also dramatically reducing idling time
Having driven extensively in LA the last several years, it would be nice if this were actually true. The rush hour traffic through west LA is one big parking lot.
Doesn't mean they're not trying, or that they're not making it better most the time. Imagine it being like that ALL the time! Simple fix would be public transport or car sharing rather than thousands and thousands of single-occupancy vehicles
Load More Replies...Arizona has recently found a way to delay traffic even further by staggering green lights at an intersection.
It saves drivers from collision in intersections, but when delays are too long they just P us off.
Load More Replies...wait really i've lived in la for fourteen years and the traffic is still shitty as f**k
The nearest 'big town' (by big I mean 12K plus people) installed a new light recently. It gives a green arrow even if there are no cars in the turning lane.
Not allowing their public transport system to be destroyed in the middle (early?) part of last century would have done far more to alleviate congestion and idling.
TIL Kodak uncovered the first atomic bomb test when customers began complaining about black spots on their photos
I will never, ever understand the justifications for the U.S. using two atomic bombs on Japan. Never.
Why? It's not hard to understand. Agree with, sure. I can't agree with it. But I can in understand it.
Load More Replies...More lives were lost in taking ONE Japanese island, Okinawa than in BOTH nuclear attacks. (310,00 against 110,000). How many more deaths would you like to have seen with a conventional war to take the other 7,000 islands?
For research, not for making bombs. Also, radioactive materials are ubiquitous, think only about the X ray machines used in medical clinics/hospitals and the food industry and airports; they are produced in "pet" reactors.
Load More Replies...There are already comments about it, even here.
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TIL Lisa Leslie as a high school basketball player scored 101 points in 16 minutes of play. She shot 37 of 56 from the floor and 27 of 35 from the line. However, she did not break the record for women's points in a high school game because the other team's coach refused to play the second half
The other teams coach wasn't much of a coach... he should have kept going and showed his players what dignity and fairness looks like! Sucks Lisa Leslie got robbed of a chance to break a record but couldn't based on a man's "embarrassment"?!? There's always a loser I guess...
How about we not jump to conclusions... Facts are better. "Two members of the visiting South Torrance team had already fouled out, and another was injured, leaving only four healthy players to contend with Lisa and her teammates. So, after taking a vote among the wounded during intermission, South Torrance coach Gilbert Ramirez decided to forfeit the game. Upon hearing the news, Lisa asked Ramirez if his team would let her score three more baskets to surpass the record. The South Torrance players said no." For any unaware, a basketball team has five players on the court at all times. With only four available, it's no wonder the players felt hopeless. https://vault.si.com/vault/1990/02/19/she-was-truckin-schoolgirl-lisa-leslie-scored-101-points-in-the-first-half-and-then-the-opposition-went-home *ALSO* it's important to know that this was set up to be a blowout, by putting their star against a low-ranked team. Is it worth rooting for Leslie at the cost of several other young girls?: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-26-sp-nucrowe26-story.html
Load More Replies...Scoring 101 points in 16 minutes means that there was a huge difference of skill between the teams. I think it is unsportsmanlike to try to humilitate the other team in order to have a record.
Oh, right, better to just claim injuries... that's not sportsmanship, that's cowardice!
Load More Replies...I agree, but she never did beat the record even though she would have if the game went on since she was only 3 baskets away from what I read in a previous comment
Load More Replies...That sounds like a forfiet and is classified as a completed game. Sound like some other shennigans was the reason for not accepting the record.
Of the players? See context in the comment above - it was the players who voted to not keep playing.
Load More Replies...TIL about fossil words, words that have largely fallen out of common use but still survive in idioms. Examples include "fro" (as in to and fro) and "lo" as in (lo and behold)
I wish we used the word ‘frightfully’ … as in “Oh, I’m frightfully sorry you were caught in that downpour!” And then Miss Marple shows up.
I don't usually hear the word "tribulations" without "trials and..." in front of it.
That word always makes me think about the Verne novel "Tribulations of a chinaman in china". I dont even remember the plot but I guess that its the first time I read that word.
Load More Replies...Zounds, what a plum tidbit! Wire this news to Bombay and send a letter to Southern Rhodesia post haste, take the buggy!
I love words! One of my favorite books is called, "The Disheveled Dictionary" by Karen Elizabeth Gordon.
You only hear “Lo” in school nativities spoken by a robotic sounding five year old. “And lo in Bethlehem a child is born.”
But...but...these are good words!! I make an effort to use words that aren't used as often, better than using some of the stupid modern excuses for "words" that seem to be become more frequent thanks to the international network for idiots
Let's be fair, new words are just as good as old words. I used to be a "These new 'words' aren't words!" sort of fellow. Eventually, I realised that languages evolve. "Ginormous" is a word, much like "recalcitrant" and 'hoosegow".
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TIL The Lion King Game (SEGA/SNES) was made extremely difficult on purpose. Disney told the developers to make the game so difficult that people wouldn't be able to beat it during a rental period at Blockbuster. A few developers would later apologize to fans for how hard the game is
Disney's "love" for kids is nothing compared to their "love" for the almighty dollar.
Well, that goes for every corporation. The bigger the company, the lower the morals.
Load More Replies...Disney is, as are all giant corporations, inherently evil because of its love of money.
S**t Aladdin was a nightmare. F*****g games without saving!
Load More Replies...I loved the Lion King SNES game but doesn't surprise me that it was intentionally difficult. Played it on and off for over 20 years and never passed level 6
The video game "Dennis the Menace" was deliberately made impossible so the developers didn't have to complete it.
I was an artist at Disney Interactive during the 90s when this game was developed. (I can still hear the music in my head now!) We were a pretty small team at the time, and a tight-knit group. I never heard of any such thing. If anything, we were simply trying to push the boundaries of artwork and gameplay within the technological limitations of the time. Still...I’m going to share this post with some old work friends and see what they say!
It was still one of my favorite games to play on Sega Genesis though
Some people believe the 'Lion King' was pretty much lifted from an earlier film, 'Kimba'.
I wouldn't say lifted. But there were striking similarities. Then again, I own a (old) book that is named "King Simba" (written somewhere in the 30s? by a Danish writer) and it's pretty much the story of "Lion King". I always figured that was the origin of it and have so far not heard any different.
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TIL that from 2003 to 2005, a 13-year-old girl wrote a 365k word Harry Potter fanfiction while in the hospital receiving cancer treatment. She passed away just six days after completing it, and her father used her notes to write the second book in the series
It's still on fanfiction dot net, here - https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1167194/1/Anna-Grayson-and-The-Order-of-Merlin
Load More Replies...Fanfiction can be an amazing creative outlet. Writing is fun (but hard work...) and if you ever wrote 50 000plus words of a truly amazing story and suddenly hit Writer's Block, you can't really be too mad at George RR Martin. Not too mad, as I said - still a little mad.
Writer's block is the worst and comes out of nowhere. You have time, you have your peace, you have a fully loaded laptop and 6 WIPs and --- bäm---nothing. rhngh
Load More Replies...Oh so sad, but I'm glad her dad completed the second book, that she finished her own--that it gave her joy and relief and that she has left this for all fanfiction fans.
Why not? They talk about fanfiction, not the actual Harry Potter books.
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TIL Steve Harvey sent a television for Christmas every year to the Teacher Who Said He'd Never Be on Television
Funny. If this had been a post about some random actor people would be applauding the pettiness, but since it's Steve Harvey and nobody likes Steve Harvey the pettiness is seen as a bad thing.
What random actor can you name who has done something like this and is being celebrated for it?
Load More Replies...I'm here to discuss his moustache, because he does not like comments about it. His teacher could thank him every year with a card asking about his moustache health, donate the tv 🤷♀️ I mean ok I'd get doing it once, but every year? Nice moustache 😉
Nah, keep the perfectly good older one and sell the new unopened ones until you're ready to upgrade. * Or donate them to families in need
Load More Replies...This story seems to have many versions. I'm curious which one is true.
I absolutely cannot stand this man. He is fake and arrogant. His schtick is not funny. He's got such asshole energy. His comments about atheism just highlight how narrow minded and simple he is.
TIL that Christopher Lee sent Peter Jackson a photograph of him in a wizard's costume, wanting to play Gandalf, but Jackson decided he would be a perfect Saruman, instead.
Lee was a huge Tolkien fan, and considered it his duty to "represent the fandom on the set"! I love him! And he also admitted that although it'd always been his dream to play Gandalf, by the time the film was made he was too old for all the riding and swordfighting. And he was a better physical match for Saruman, was was described as being very tall, with a marvelous voice, having white hair and dark eyes, and a white beard with a few black hairs around the mouth... which also describes Christopher Lee.
And he was the only one who met Tolkien personally.
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TIL that Brisbane was originally founded as a penal colony for convicts who committed new offenses after they had arrived in Australia
Wow another truth down voted! Yes Jo the entire country was a prison.
Not for the Aboriginals though. But it became hell after the white people started coming there.
Load More Replies...Jo, they mean that convicts who were sent to Australia and committed new crimes when there, were punished again by being sent to Brisbane
Load More Replies...Where do people "learn" this revisionist nonsense? Some few people were sent here as punishment, but America was never fundamentally an English penal colony. North America was also being colonized by France, Spain, and the Dutch. England wouldn't have made American colonies penal colonies to compete with them.
Load More Replies...Mazer, have you hear of the Soviet Cannibal Island? They sent people there for their crimes and they never truly made it out
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TIL a California lawyer filed for a restraining order to stop his neighbor's kids from playing basketball claiming their game dropped the value of his house by $100k. He was ultimately denied with the court saying that reasonable people can expect "some inconveniences and annoyances" from neighbors
Because governments don't want to upset the asshòles too much. They can afford lawyers.
Load More Replies...Netherlands: We have valued your house at €450 000 for property tax. Also Netherlands: We just gave permission to a metal recycling company to build a plant right across the street.
It's a reality pretty much anywhere: what happens outside your property line is a complete lottery. The best defense is living in an established community/neighborhood, which usually comes with an HOA in the US. Even still, there can be something built nearby that will generate noises or smells which will carry.
Load More Replies...Sounds like rich white asshole hates neighbors, tries to use his money to oppress them. Welcome to the land of the rich.
Mmm I wonder why they need to be white. It is almost as if you judge and stereotype people based on their skin colour...
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TIL the McDonald's corporation quietly phased out Ronald McDonald, the companies clown mascot, due to the 2016 clown scare video fad
Shows how little impact poor old Ronald had on the brand
Load More Replies...Funny thing is, during those commercials in the 80s, the other mascots were more entertaining, like the hamburgular
I thought they kicked him to the curb way longer ago than that. I ain't seen that ugly mug in decades.
RIP Willard Scott, the 1st Ronald McDonald and NBC Today Show weatherman.
a few days ago, I read an article about what Grimace was suppose to be. Apparently, he is a taste bud. Go figure
Honestly, Grimace creeped me the hell out as a kid in the 80's/90's!
Load More Replies...Still saw a Ronald advert the other day. Not completely phased out then I guess
It's all just people, now. Too many hidden problems with the costumes, I'd guess.
TIL the modern air conditioner was invented by Willis Carrier not to cool people, but to reduce damaging humidity in a print shop
Fabulous picture. Let’s all wear evening dresses and stand around the air conditioner.
Huh. I had heard it was invented to keep people going to movie theaters in summer.
That was one of its first big commercial uses. For my parents' generation, the movie theater was the first place they ever experienced AC.
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TIL that the town of Why, Arizona was originally known as just "Y" due to the Y-shaped intersection of two roads. It changed its name to "Why" due to an Arizona state law requiring town names to be at least 3 letters long
You can't leave it at that - are there others? Is there a Tea? What about Ecks?
There's a city in Michigan called Novi. It was the No. VI (sixth) stop on the trail from Detroit to Lansing.
Great solution... . They could have used your innovative thinking.... ALL CAPS would have been most appropriate ~ YYY
Load More Replies...Stopped there once on the way to Organ Pipe Nat’l Monument. Cool little dusty town. The local bowling alley advertises free “Why-Fi.”
Is a fork in the road or a t junction really that rare in America that you can name a town after it and it make sense??
When you're surrounded by many miles of trackless desert, a Y in the road is a prominent feature.
Load More Replies...There is a township in QLD Australia called 1770. The year it was discovered by Capt. Cook.
TIL Centuries after Alexander the great's death, his tomb was a tourist attraction. Many of the roman emperors who visited the tomb left with souvenirs, effectively looting the monument. According to one account, Augustus Caesar tried to touch the 300 year old mummy, accidentaly breaking its nose
It was known originally, but then moved and lost.
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TIL building codes in South Florida require exterior doors to swing outwards because it offers better protection against hurricanes. It was enacted after Hurricane Andrew
This isn't normal? Because in any panic people push outwards and would block the door if it would get inwards. Safety rules in switzerland, though.
In public buildings, yeah. But private homes? What kinda parties are you hosting?
Load More Replies...I always thought most doors open inwards because if they open outwards & it snows then you're trapped inside
If enough snow blocks the door you can't get out anyway?
Load More Replies...In Austria all outer doors of public buildings must open outwards, after a theater burned down in 1881. 449 people died because they could not escape since the doors opened inwards, and the crowd trying to escape pushed against the doors, making it impossible to open them. Also safety curtains between the stage and the audience became mandatory.
Ours open inward. All 3 doors. Our house was built in 1961 and they don't make you change it. Hurricanes aren't nearly as much of an issues people seem to think.
Its mush easier to close a door for intruders if you have to push, than if you have to step outside and pull the door close.
Load More Replies...Moved to soflo from AZ just 3 years ago... I deliver pizza and I've always wondered why that was!
We are required to have at least one outdoor to swing inwards because of heavy snow to be sure not to be stuck in our houses. Regards from Iceland 🇮🇸
I live in Florida and my door swings inward. If you have an outward swinging door and something blocks it you can’t get out.
TIL that the entry fee for Hammond's Jurassic Park (from the first movie) was supposed to be 550 $
That included some method of conveyance to the island, as there were no 'native settlements' there.
I'm confused about the Harry Potter one. The second Harry Potter book came out in 1998
The father of the girl used notes the girl had made before her death to write a sequel to the fanfiction that the girl had wrote.
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Load More Replies...I'm confused about the Harry Potter one. The second Harry Potter book came out in 1998
The father of the girl used notes the girl had made before her death to write a sequel to the fanfiction that the girl had wrote.
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