› added 2 years ago

71

Today I learned there are microbes and diseases plushies!

Read more giantmicrobes.com

via reddit.com

VLeG TIL that in Finland, traffic fines are proportionate to the latest available data on an offender’s income. In October 2001, Anssi Vanjoki (at the time a director at Nokia) was ordered to pay a fine of 116,000 euros after being caught driving at 75 km/h in a 50km/h zone.
l7jv1 TIL Benjamin Franklin invented an instrument called the Glass Armonica. A musician powered a foot pedal to rotate 36 concentric glass bowls and produced notes by putting wet fingers to the spinning glass.
vPw98 TIL in 2005 the comic strip "Pearls Before Swine" ran a week-long crossover where the PBS characters discussed the oblivious "Family Circus' family taking in Osama Bin Laden. It concluded with the family being taken to Guantanamo Bay.
04Ry TIL that in New Zealand, names for children must be approved by the government before being legally registered. Despite this, names such as “Number 16 Bus Shelter”, “Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii” and “Violence” have been approved while “Yeah Detroit” and “Sex Fruit” have been rejected.
69DMJ TIL that in 1866 a flock of the now extinct Passenger Pigeon in southern Ontario was described as being 1.5 km (0.93 mi) wide and 500 km (310 mi) long, took 14 hours to pass, and held in excess of 3.5 billion birds.