Home
Random
Trending
Today
Search
› added
12 years ago
471
TIL Google’s first server rack was made from Lego.
Read more
infolab.stanford.edu
via
reddit.com
byx4
TIL in 1440 a clerical error accidentally gave independence to a square mile of Italy, forming an anarchist republic that lasted over four hundred years.
WBb9
TIL 87% of parents will buy or make Easter baskets for their children—and 81% will then proceed to steal candy from them.
avXN
TIL that during US-backed Pinochet’s violent takeover of Chile, a popular singer was beaten, tortured and had his hands broken. While he lay on the ground, his captors mockingly suggested he play guitar. With that he sang “We Will Win” before he was shot 44 times.
J1aNB
TIL that the wealthiest athlete in human history, was an ancient Roman charioteer from what is now Portugal, named Gaius Appuleius Diocles. His combined earnings were the equivalent of fifteen billion dollars.
YpvjP
TIL The Y2K bug was real but the predictions of a world-shaking disaster were utter nonsense and caused by hucksters looking to profit from it.