› added 11 years ago

85

TIL There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover the entire land mass of North and South America with roughly one foot of water

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

1QgP TIL That Software Patches are called such because programmers would use tape to physically patch over punch holes on punchcard cards.
xQ77 TIL that in 1932, 15,000 World War I veterans set up camp throughout Washington DC to force Congress to immediately pay their bonus. They were forcibly removed by tanks and cavalry.
Brpex TIL Stephen King kept a severe alcohol and cocaine addiction hidden from his family for eight years. He claims he kept the addiction well-hidden but eventually, "...the books [started] to show it after a while. 'Misery' is a book about cocaine. Annie Wilkes is cocaine. She was my number-one fan."
gWmL TIL blowing into a vagina can be life-threatening to the women
gMjNL TIL of DMHO - the joke to call water by an alternative chemical compound name (Dihydrogen monoxide)