› added 11 years ago

85

TIL in 2007 scientists froze light in it’s tracks, converted it to matter, and then re-started it a distance away

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

V5a4 TIL You have a higher chance of being bitten by Luis Suarez than by a shark
84kG TIL that the majority of war hammers looked more like regular claw hammers on poles than the huge mallets we imagine
69XoQ TIL that only 30-50% of people have an “inner monologue”
GY8QQ TIL Disney's Jungle Cruise ride was built in a lot full of orange trees. Some of them had to be removed to make way for construction and they tagged them with red and green to know which ones to keep, but the bulldozer operator was color blind and removed them all.
oRAv8 TIL Freddy Kruger was originally going to be played by veteran British actor David Warner.