› added 11 years ago

173

TIL if an “hourglass” measures any time other than an hour, it is actually called a “clepsammia.”

Read more wordinfo.info

via reddit.com

AN6D7 TIL that no person born blind has developed schizophrenia
LQy90 TIL: Phan Thi Kim Phuc, the injured girl who was in the equally infamous and iconic "Napalm girl" image, survived her third-degree burns and became a UNESCO humanitarian, even eventually meeting with the pilot who dropped the napalm and forgave him.
M7reW TIL Danielle Steel has sold 800 million copies of her novels.
NP86 TIL that the Packard plant in Detroit is the largest abandoned industrial facility in the world.
5YRV9 TIL: An FBI file says (pg.34) a "clairvoyant" (name redacted) claimed the space shuttle Challenger explosion was the work of NASA-employed "local conspirators" in security whose addresses she gave. Checks found "none of the current security employees, or recent dismissals" lived in the general area.