› added 7 years ago

136

TIL that in 2015, a husband and wife were the only two people left residing in Spencer Mountain, NC and they elected themselves to the town council via write in vote.

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

R7pda TIL A new, low-cost wound dressing leverages energy generated from a patient's own body motions to apply gentle electrical pulses at the site of an injury. In rodent tests, the dressings reduced healing times to a mere three days compared to nearly two weeks for the normal healing process.
wgaY TIL that in 1382, a French bookseller named Nicholas Flamel claimed to have transformed lead into gold after decoding an ancient book of alchemy. True or not, historical records show that Flamel did come into considerable wealth around this time, and donated his riches to charity.
ADGvx TIL The song 'Splish Splash (I Was Takin' a Bath)' came to be because the songwriter was challenged that they couldn't write a song that began with those first 7 words.
Oa8g TIL Neil deGrasse was dismissed for jury duty as he teaches a class in Princeton that looks at the “evaluation of evidence and the relative unreliability of eyewitness testimony.”
pJp TIL that the Beatles had to dodge jellybeans thrown at them on stage because fans heard George Harrison liked them