› added 4 months ago

20

TIL that the Japanese 1 yen coin is so light, it can float in water

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

0w8AM TIL that a guy called Dale Schroeder used his life savings to send 33 students to college. he grew up poor in Iowa, never married, had no children, and worked as a carpenter at the same company for 67 years and only owned 2 jeans.
EyO7 TIL The top 5 least corrupt countries in the world are all Scandinavian countries, New Zealand, and Singapore
1JQV TIL in 2003, Kirk Jones drunkenly swam over the Niagara Falls, earning himself a $2,300 fine and a lifetime ban from Canada.
R7vK6 TIL No two samples of human ashes will be precisely the same in terms of elemental composition
Brgbb TIL: the speed of light can be slowed down