› added 5 years ago

111

TIL that brass surfaces kill superbugs

Read more staph-infection-resources.com

via reddit.com

p8vme TIL that when someone set Cleverbot up talking to itself, it (they?) almost immediately started talking about God
4kyJR TIL about the experiment to find the world's funniest (most average) joke with the widest appeal. Richard Wiseman created LaughLab, an online experiment for people to submit and rate jokes. Gurpal Gosal of Manchester submitted the winning joke based on a 1951 radio skit written by Spike Milligan.
x647B TIL during WWI, Allied soldiers used glowworms as trench lamps, storing the bioluminescent insects in bottles for light. Their service was so helpful, they were honored in 2004 when Princess Anne unveiled a London memorial for animals and insects that aided the war effort.
4k6Qa TIL, to study honesty, researchers called people at random and asked them to flip a coin, promising them €10 if they flipped tails. Fewer than half the subjects reported flipping tails, suggesting that almost no one lied.
LkpXd TIL that there is a third world trade center tower in China, looking exactly like the ones in New York.