› added 5 years ago

93

TIL the first person of African heritage in space was Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

665Y TIL Pope Innocent VIII was given the blood of 3 young boys while in a coma in an attempt to save his life. All four died.
dLO7 TIL that mushrooms can create a slight breeze even when the air is calm. They release water vapour, cooling the air and creating a convective current that gets the air moving, carrying spores away from the parent.
oBd8E TIL Of the pareto principle also known as the 80/20 rule. Which states that for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. ex. Microsoft has noted that by fixing the top 20% of the most-reported bugs, 80% of the related errors in a given system would be eliminated.
rraW TIL a man who was sentenced to 30 years in prison for shooting with intent to kill and robbery requested that his sentence was extended to 33 years, to match Larry Bird’s NBA jersey number. The request was granted.
0wQ91 TIL about "The Forgotten 500" U.S. airmen who were shot down during bombing raids into Romania. Serbian peasants hid the airmen, at considerable risk, while the men, living on goat’s milk, had to build a runway large enough to land C-47s, without any real tools or alerting Nazis, for their rescue.