› added 1 year ago

26

TIL In the 1900s, German was the dominant language for science (thanks to Einstein, Planck, Heisenberg and others). It was only until mid 1990s that English firmly established itself as the main language.

Read more morningtrans.com

via reddit.com

e0vG4 TIL Kurt Cobain's suicide note was addressed "To Boddah", and contained the phrase "it's better to burn out than to fade away", lyrics from Neil Young's song "hey hey my my".
Yp0OW TIL There are no laws against cannibalism in the United States. However, laws against murder, battery and desecration of corpses make it impossible to eat someone legally.
grwkD TIL that Nazi food scienists made synthetic butter (margarine) out of coal
pYmlG TIL that during the making of "Thriller" by Michael Jackson, sound engineer Bruce Swedien set up tape recorders around his Great Dane in a barn overnight to record the howls used as sound effects in the song. When the dog didn't howl, it was decided that Jackson would record the howls himself.
BpRb TIL the French Intelligence services blew up a Greenpeace ship in a New Zealand port, killing a photographer on board.