› added 13 years ago

275

TIL the Atkinson Engine cycles through all four strokes in one revolution of the crankshaft.

Read more animatedengines.com

via reddit.com

vNw8 TIL in 2012, California became the first state to legislatively recognize the human right to water, declaring “every human being has the right to safe, clean, affordable, and accessible water.”
gMp88 TIL of a baseball player who took out his false teeth to look more intimidating during games. During one game he put them in his hip pocket, and managed to bite himself on the ass when he slid into second base
N7JbP TIL of Philip of France, who died by getting catapulted by his horse, scared because of a black pig in a market in Paris.
wL9r7 TIL that from 1912 to 1948, there was architecture, designing and town planning as an Olympic Event.
PYPEV TIL déjà rêvé is a feeling similar to déjà vu, except instead of feeling like you’ve previously experienced an event in real life, you feel like you previously experienced it in a dream.