› added 7 years ago

213

TIL Big Shaq is a comedian and "Man's Not Hot" is a joke

Read more kotaku.com

via reddit.com

XAvQ TIL that mopeds and scooters emit 10-30 times the amount of hydrocarbons per km that cars do
p8bop TIL that the details of the Manhattan Project were so secret that many workers had no idea why they did their jobs. A laundrywoman had a dedicated duty to "hold up an instrument and listen for a clicking noise" without knowing why. It was a Geiger counter testing the radiation levels of uniforms.
PBKO TIL that in Fallout: New Vegas, different characters will pronounce “Caesar” differently, depending on rank and respect for the character; while the average NPC pronounces it “See-Zur,” Legionaires will pronounce it “Kai-Sarr,” the traditional Latin pronunciation.
preb TIL that not only has there never been a better rocket than the Saturn V (built in 1967), but that today’s engineers can’t even recreate it.
4kL66 TIL the voice of AOL’s “You’ve got mail!” is named Elwood Edwards and as of 2016 was an Uber driver in Cleveland