› added 1 year ago

52

TIL Gavin McInnes was in a punk band with a drummer from Godspeed You Black Emperor

Read more last.fm

via reddit.com

64LX TIL that at the end of WWI, Germany had to pay reparations of 132 billion gold marks. The reparations were not fully paid until 2010, marking the official end of the war.
Y7ePd TIL about the cross education effect, a neurophysiological phenomenon where exercising one of your limbs will improve strength in the other.
16lRr TIL of the CrunchPad, a failed tablet Linux computer that was a collab project of Mike Arrington of TechCrunch and a Singapore company called Fusion Garage, only to be mired in conflicts that caused Mike to leave the project and it was renamed the JooJoo.
Knkw TIL that according to Navajo culture the weaver of a rug would deliberately put an imperfection, called a “ch’ihónít’i” (“spirit line”), believed to allow the release of the weaver’s spirit from the woven item, and also symbolizes the perfection-in-imperfection
gM7Ny TIL of the USS Yorktown. A US navy ship that was left "dead in the water" after a member of the crew accidentally tried to divide by 0 on it's computers. This caused many of the ship's computer systems to crash, including propulsion resulting in it needing towing back to port.