› added 13 years ago

143

TIL That Dreamcast games are still being made

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

VMO10 TIL that the National Orchestra of Wales used a "sound box" so deaf people can experience a concert. Through vibrations, it transmits music to people with their hands on it or even lying on top of it. One participant called it "something none of us would ever have thought that we would experience."
wLWo8 TIL during 9/11 nearly 500,000 people were transported out to safety by boat in 9 hours, compared to Dunkirk which saved 300,000 troops in three days
VZE0 TIL Ovaltine is technically a form of gruel, but the manufacturers avoid calling it such due to negative historial connotations
l71W1 TIL when flies land on your food, they basically spit on it — because they have to release digestive juices to liquefy it into a predigested, slurpable soup they can swallow.
4EgX TIL in 2009 ChumbaWamba recorded an EP to be released in the event of Margaret Thatcher’s death.