› added 6 years ago

542

TIL Mixing Tylenol and Alcohol even in small amounts can kill you.

Read more huffingtonpost.com

via reddit.com

Gn54 TIL that pi can be (roughly) calculated by throwing hot dogs.
VMv8Z TIL Cato the Elder's constant reiteration of "Carthage must be destroyed" was countered by Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum's constant reiteration of "Carthage should be preserved". Scipio's opinion prevailed at the time because many Romans believed that the threat of Carthage united them.
rNBeo TIL with today's medicine, Abraham Lincoln likely would've survived his assassination (his frontal lobes were undamaged and he died 10 hours after being shot).
8aBr8 TIL There are over 40 dangerous radioactive satellites in orbit of Earth. One - Kosmos 954 - already crashed in Canada in 1978 spreading radiation over 600km, eventually leaking into the US
pGJe TIL that an Olympic rower named Henry Pearce stopped mid-race to allow ducklings to pass by him and he still won the race.