› added 11 years ago

172

TIL that some old books were released with some of the pages “uncut” and folded together, and in order to read them, you must cut the pages

Read more abebooks.com

via reddit.com

XENaX TIL Brad Fiedel, who wrote the theme for The Terminator, said that the much disputed/odd time signature (13/8 or 12/8) present in the song was due to a timing error in the synths and sequencer loops which were synced by hand.
9YyXM TIL that back in the day, people used to apply just soap on themselves without washing it off. But since it had a bad smell, the idea of washing it off surfaced.
R5wbQ TIL according to US Census data, the state of New York in 2023 had both: the largest population decline in pure numbers (almost 102,000 residents) and the highest rate of population decline (0.5%) among all 50 states.
W7Vlo TIL “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God” is mistranslated from Aramaic word for “rope” to the Greek word for “camel”.
ANJ67 TIL the 1927 Liberian general election saw Charles D.B. King win with 229,527 votes. The country had less than 15,000 registered voters at the time.