No matter how educated you might be, no matter how many books you’ve read, it’s impossible to know everything that there is to know about the world. Naturally, you’ll end up with quite a few knowledge gaps. Gaps that you might not even be aware of! However, if you keep an open mind and are humble enough to admit that you don’t know everything, the internet can be a fantastic place to learn new things.
That’s where the ‘Today I Learned’ Twitter account, @til_feed, comes in. It’s a page with 33.6k followers that has been collecting and sharing interesting facts about the world, from science and psychology to history and nature, since late 2020. We’ve chosen the most intriguing facts to pique your interest, Pandas, so put on your thinking hats as you scroll down.
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They also made a movie about it, called Hidden Figures! Everybody should watch it, it’s so good!
I learned from reading an unrelated book that Marie Curie’s documents are also said to be radioactive as well.
I live in Los Angeles. Traffic is terrible. Can't imagine what it would be like if it were 16% worse.
I remember living in Hanna Wyoming was it was -40F. Walking home from the bus stop after school, it started to get dark and we had double scarves wrapped around our mouths. Breathing in that ice cold air really hurts your lungs. I can’t imagine what -83F is like ! But I did read Coldfoot, Alaska got that cold before ! Forget that c**p…I’m going back to Las Cruces New Mexico next summer lol
But on the bright side, you planted more trees and helped the environment!
I grew up calling them Lego bricks and Lego parts. The US plural use as a noun sounds weird and strangely childish to me. I've never corrected it though. It seems like it's engrained in the US psyche.
Had a Danish exchange student here in US. They burn most garbage(some kind of stack cleaning tech to reduce pollutants), and use the heat to power steam boilers for home heat.
Kinda old news this one. It's very well known the national grid vary productivity around TV viewing habits, especially sport. It used to be the soap operas as well until online streaming meant you can catch up whenever.
So what did I’m you think their official title is? Space Olfactory Specialist . Come on give us your ideas.
I was reading about this, it's amazing how potent the smell is, they put very little in there and it still smells strong.
They made a short film in 2013 using atoms as well https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCX78-8-q0
No, no no! Canada saved the hostages, our US embassy workers. The CIA had very little to do with it. The movie Argo assigns all the heroics done by Canada to Americans. It's wrong.
Well now I just found a prospective place to live… I’ll wave at y’all from my cruise ship
Have you heard of the Chernobyl Babushkas? They were your friendly neighborhood "I-was-born-here-I-will-die-here." There's about a hundred of them living in the exclusion zone, and they all maintain a strong sisterhood. Their really old, and they say that their thriving. You ever stop to think that maybe Nuclear energy isn't all that bad? I mean, Chernobyl seems to be thriving!
I don’t wanna say that you should steal $71.6 million but that plan was so ingenious and they pulled it off so I kinda say they deserve all the money. (Not literally tho.)
I can't imagine how lonely and awesome that would be, if they had a conscious.
Now go google Apple's "sueme" sound. Soothing and a funny story
A sugar cube of a neutron star weighs a few trillion kilograms less than Mount Everest
So the green Atlantic Ocean water is thicker than the blue Pacific Ocean water?
Seriously? It took them that long to figure out that flying things can go away when the weather is bad?
People probably underestimate Africa’s size because of the most common map design(I forgot what it was called) that has unevenly sized continents due to the equator not being in the center. An accurate map appears to be slightly distorted, so the inaccurate one is more appealing to the eye.
Slightly off topic, but still regarding Mir; my daughter in law, grand daughter and I went down to the beach near us and saw Mir as its last orbit, low in the sky, took it towards the Pacific. That was sad; I remember it but they have probably forgotten it by now.
More aren't necessary as there are only 25 blimps around the world with only half of them in active service
Try and discern cold coffee being poured in a cup from hot coffe being poured in a cup by the sound it produces. If your hearing isn't compromised, you most likely can.
I live in wA state, and I believe the leaking waste is criminal. Humans are so destructive, it's pathetic 😢
This statement is a little misleading it makes it sound as if they spent it all on one plane. This probably typical of designing something that will be mass produced and needed to be reliable
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