50 “Today I Learned” Facts That Might Pique Your Interest

That’s heartwarming

he was right

Oh let’s get this sh!t back on the ballot!

Is this giving a slant to a story.?

They also made a movie about it, called Hidden Figures! Everybody should watch it, it’s so good!

Good

Magic reindeer!

what a jokester!

she showed them!

Toyota, you have impressed me and earned my respect.

That’s incredibly selfless of them.

I think we need hives especially for alcoholic honey. 🐝

image his dispair now that it’s not a (main)planet now

Well good for him!

Then they started picking crumbs off the ocean floor carpet

Thats why we get full solar eclipses i think

That's really cool!

I learned from reading an unrelated book that Marie Curie’s documents are also said to be radioactive as well.

He was brilliant - his “starry night” painting has a lot of interesting astronomy stuff too

PROPS TO ✨DENNIS RITCHIE✨ WHO INVENTED THE C-PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE, CO CREATED THE UNIX OPERATING SYSTEM, AND INFLUENCED A PART OF EFFECTIVELY EVERY SOFTWARE SYSTEM WE USE ON A DAILY BASIS

Interesting

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

That’s kind of sad because if they were using a Geiger counter they knew it could hurt you

Why couldn't we do that In the UK? Oh I know, greed.

LOL

But on the bright side, you planted more trees and helped the environment!

Once landed you can kill him again

Is it just me or does this look like broken glass?

ELON MUSK IS THAT YOU?!

It was in such a good condition that scientists had to chase it for a while before extracting its blood.

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.

Red red Wine

Pics or it didn't happen.

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.

Overachievers 🙄

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.

Gross...for several reasons.

So did they start this after the movie Airplane came out or before?

That's sad

Reminder that significant relationships don’t have to be romantic to count! Friendships and family bonds are just as important and valid

Best decision he’s made…

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

I ship them

Ah, now here is the important science I have been waiting for!

chonky lil guy ☁️☁️☁️

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.

It's not but whatever makes you sleep at night.

Never LEGOS

Finally a law that makes sense

Nerd/s

Apparently that is the Banqiao Dam failure thanks to a typhoon, though overall over 60 dams broke. Nature remains scary.

Then the penguins jump in and go for joyrides on the ice

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.)

Yes!!! So happy I quit cold turkey at the age of 25.

Normal toilets should have this!

Uhhhhhh what was that experiment?

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

There really IS something strange in the neighborhood

Although ironically we use metric in England ...

Pffft, round earthers, everyone knows there can be no arc on a flat earth.