› added 8 years ago

123

TIL that Phoenix is the only city to have a complete “sports equinox”, when all four major sports teams from a city play on the same day. On November 4th, 2001 the Cardinals (NFL), the Coyotes (NHL), and the Suns (NBA) all lost, while the Diamondbacks won game 7 of the World Series.

Read more fivethirtyeight.com

via reddit.com

p8erp TIL During WWII chemists dissolved in acid large Nobel Prize medals with the engraved names of Max von Laue and James Franck to hide them from Germans. Solution of black liquid in two unmarked jars sat on a laboratory shelf. After the war the Nobel Foundation recast them and returned to the owners.
VMRKm TIL on august 10, 2018, an airplane was stolen from Sea–Tac Airport in Washington by 29-y-old Richard Russell, a ground service agent with no piloting experience. He flew around for 1h15min, kept radio contact, did a succesfull barrel roll, then crashed on an island purposely, killing only himself
N7EN6 TIL after the international ban on elephant ivory trade in 1990, China has been sourcing ivory from the fossils of mammoths in the melting permafrost of the Russian Arctic.
Me6l8 TIL about the Sentenilese people, a tribe that has been self isolating on North Sentinel Island for around 60,000 years and attack anyone who attempts to make contact.
Me49W TIL There is no universal sign language. Different sign languages are used in different countries or regions.