› added 7 years ago

99

TIL all New Orleans public schools were closed indefinitely in the wake of Katrina and students now attend private or public charter schools.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

yVVNM TIL that while reading your eyes don’t move continuously along a line of text but make short, rapid movements (saccades) intermingled with short stops
OoK54 TIL Charles McCarthy decided to take his own life rather than fall into enemy hands. The Ashanti promptly removed his head and took it in triumph back to their capital at Kumasi. It was made into a gold-rimmed drinking cup for the use of their king.
awDgM TIL when you flush the toilet a plume of fecal matter covers the air and everything around including the walls, shower, toothbrush, towels and the best way to prevent the toilet plume is to close the lid every flush
E1a8X TIL of flail chest, an injury in which broken ribs become detached from the rest of the chest wall and move opposite to the rest of the torso while breathing.
b6yyp TIL that the Manhattan Project produced a short book on how to build an atomic bomb. "The Los Alamos Primer" is 24 pages and completely declassified. Freeman Dyson wrote that the guide should not have been published, because it tells readers that "bomb designing is fun".