› added 3 years ago

89

TIL the largest maritime evacuation in history occurred on 9/11/01. Over 150 vessels responded to the Coast Guard’s call for help and evacuated over 500,000 people from Lower Manhattan in just 9 hours.

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

WoPY TIL that in 2009 Eric Schmidt, Google’s Chairman, said “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place” when confronted about the search engine’s privacy policies.
4k9Mb TIL the largest man-made beach is 26 miles long.
dDwvK TIL that the legal age of adulthood is higher than 18 in three US states. In Alabama and Nebraska, it's 19, and in Mississippi, it's 21
mxyZM TIL that peeing on the near side of the toilet bowl, in front of the water, produces the least splashback
LkXQQ TIL of the concept of Deja Reve. Deja Reve is the same as Deja Vu but instead of feeling that you've experienced an event once before, you instead feel you've dreamt of this event once before.