› added 10 months ago

232

TIL Charles Darwin has a copy of Karl's Marx's book back on display

Read more bbc.com

via reddit.com

xnl7 TIL Nixon was speaking at Disney World when he famously declared “I am not a crook”
epyLD TIL that Nabokov saw each letter as a color. It's called grapheme-color synesthesia
7rPKM TIL the name X-Ray came from its discoverer Wilhelm Röntgen while he investigated many properties of the new rays. He temporarily termed them "X-rays", using the mathematical designation ("X") for something unknown.
GYll7 TIL a black lab named Eclipse is a regular solo rider to a nearby dog park with her bus pass attached to her harness. Her owner meets her there.
XENwE TIL that Memorial Stadium at the University of Illinois has a bulldozer underneath the field. During construction of the stadium, torrential rains caused a bulldozer to sink into the mud. Being too expensive to remove, the bulldozer remains buried beneath the field as of this day