› added 9 years ago

197

TIL on January 22, 1943, the temperature in Spearfish, South Dakota, changed from -4°F to 45°F in just two minutes, setting a world record. This was caused by a Chinook wind, which increased the temperature eventually up to 54°F before dying down, dropping the temperature back to -4°F.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

p8KmQ TIL the coffee bean is actually just the pit of a bright red fruit called a coffee cherry
X0gZj TIL that Jean Baptiste Lully, a famous composer, died from gangrene after striking his own foot with a conducting staff
KV86 TIL that Napoleon I was actually 5'7", an average male height at the time, and his “shortness” was propaganda used by the British that is still believed today.
vjoK TIL When legendary African King Shaka Zulu’s mother died, He ordered no crops could be planted for the year, Pregnant women were to be killed, no milk was to be drank, and then slaughtered 7000 people who were insufficiently grief stricken.
rNwdw TIL: Due to the invention of nuclear bombs, historians refer to the period from 1945 to now as, "The Long Peace"