› added 11 years ago

219

TIL ‘Jersey Shore’ is known in Japan as 'Macaroni Rascals’

Read more travel.cnn.com

via reddit.com

P1AXw TIL that sidereal time is different from solar time, so in a typical "year" (ignoring leap year complications) where sun rises 365 times, the Earth has actually done 366 rotations around its axis
N7KRb TIL Winchester Cathedral was built on marsh and was on the verge of collapse as it sunk into the earth. A diver named William Walker worked alone in pitch-black water for five years, eventually putting down 25,000 bags of concrete, 115,000 concrete blocks, and 900,000 bricks to save its foundation.
Z8VWG TIL places like Wales, Wallachia, Wallonia, and Cornwall etc, have similar names because it was the word German conquerors called the surviving Roman speakers after the empire fell. The twem "walhaz" means stranger, which the surviving Roman refugees were to them.
1aMWr TIL that only once in its history has New Mexico's electoral votes not gone to the candidate who won the national popular vote.
oRP8r TIL The Goodyear Blimp is the Official bird of Redondo Beach California!