› added 4 years ago

272

TIL that Mariachi music is Mexican Polka.

Read more liveabout.com

via reddit.com

5YA78 TIL the Chinese government forbids the band Muse from playing their hit song ‘Uprising’ at their concerts in China.
dDmnj TIL that Teflon (used in non-stick pans) was accidentally discovered by a 27-year-old engineer at DuPont while researching refrigerants in 1938.
nepaP TIL, 5 exabytes of information was created between 12k BC and 2003 AD. But that rate has gone up to every two days by 2003. An exabyte is 1,024 petabytes, while a petabyte is 1,024 terabytes.
Z8RXD TIL Beverly Eckert, a 9/11 widow, whose husband died in the South Tower of the WTC, while being on a phonecall with her, died 8 years later in a planecrash.
p8MNe TIL that the phrase "out of sorts" is most often attributed to typesetting and refers to running out of an individual metal type called "sorts" that printers used during Tudor times in England, though the phrase itself predates that.