› added 12 years ago

473

TIL that the wind on neptune is so fast that it breaks the sound barrier

Read more iflscience.com

via reddit.com

QJOLL TIL that, when Cowboy Bebop's composer went on a trip to the US for her university, she noticed that the groove of street musicians would swing harder as she travelled more from the West Coast to the East
x6Bx0 TIL that pool balls' colors always correspond to their numbers, with the colors of the solids (1-7) matching the corresponding colors of the stripes (8-14)!
neARY TIL that around 6 million Polish citizens —nearly 21.4% of Poland's population at the time — died between 1939 and 1945 as a result of the German occupation of the country. It is estimated 90% of those deaths were non-military losses, i.e. murder.
l7xE1 TIL Christopher Nolan's brother Matthew was charged with murder in 2009 after allegedly creating a fake identity using the name 'Oppenheimer'
R1V7 TIL Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao is set to become Vietnam’s first female billionaire thanks to her idea of staffing Vietjet Airlines with attractive women clad in sexy two-piece swimsuits.