› added 6 months ago

123

TIL two mirrors facing each other don’t produce infinite reflections

Read more sciencefocus.com

via reddit.com

16kYV TIL that "The Long and Winding Road", which was written by Paul McCartney, was offered to Tom Jones on the condition that he release it as his next single. In Jones' recollection, he was forced to turn it down since his record company were about to issue "Without Love" as a single.
8ao94 Today I learned that George Jetson was born in 2022. Welcome to the future.
WJdo TIL Stalin imprisoned 200,000 people for telling jokes against the USSR
8xEV TIL that in a 2004 study of basic science literacy, less than half of US adults knew that genes are located in cells.
N901 TIL Famed dentist Painless Parker (who wore a necklace of teeth) & his Dental Circus lured naive patients by promising that the 50c extraction would be painless, or he’d pay $5. Screams of agony were drowned by a brass band while the audience was distracted, enjoying contortionists & dancing women.