› added 12 years ago

99

TIL that an executive defeated Bill Gates 35 out of 37 in a video game, when they met again a month later Gates “won or tied every game. He had studied the game until he solved it.”

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

RrP8 TIL that Ancient Greek scientist Eratosthenes used nothing more than shadows, geometry, and a dude he hired to pace out the distance between two cities to determine that the earth was curved, and roughly 40 thousand kilometers in circumference, and he was right.
9aWX TIL that the author of The Anarchist Cookbook, William Powell, was just 19 when he wrote the book in 1969. He later disavowed the violent ideology that he advocated in the book and wished to have the book “quickly and quietly go out of print”. He passed away in July 2016.
loy5 TIL that, in level 3-3 of the original Super Mario Bros, it is actually possible to jump over the flagpole. An unending brick road lies beyond the castle.
Y7vkG TIL Oklahoma had a state sponsored crow dynamiting program that resulted in 3.8 million crows killed from 1934-1945
kpM7 TIL that geographically, Victoria is the smallest state of mainland Australia.