› added 10 years ago

179

TIL one of the world’s fastest clappers can clap up to 14 times per second. His world record is 721 claps in one minute. This is a video of him demonstrating his ability.

Read more youtu.be

via reddit.com

nWBy7 TIL that an Irish American by the name of Malcolm Loughead was a renowned engineer who invented the hydraulic brakes that all cars use today. You might already know his company because he got so sick of people mispronouncing his last name that he changed it’s spelling to the more phonetic “Lockheed”
N75Zb TIL turning down the radio in your car to concentrate more may actually increase visual acuity, it's your brains way of prioritizing tasks.
DQ87P TIL that vervet monkeys have different warning calls depending on the type of predator being encountered.
NXk4Q TIL that Charles Thacker, designer of the 1973 Xerox Alto (the first computer with a graphical interface and mouse), also worked on early tablet concepts decades before Apple. When the iPad succeeded in 2010, his wife quipped, “Well, dear, you were 10 years ahead of your time again.”
kJ1ae TIL about Ines Ramirez Perez who performed an emergency C-section on herself. Both mother and child survived.