› added 3 years ago

132

TIL there's no substantive evidence for our attention span getting shorter

Read more bbc.com

via reddit.com

An1w TIL in 2008 pranksters hacked into a Czech weathercast and added a nuclear bomb blast to the live video of the view outdoors.
LkQ59 Scientists have isolated the brains of dogs, cats and monkeys and kept them alive for short periods in one way or another. But the most successful "whole-brain preparation" of a mammal was developed in the mid-1980s. A neuroscientist at NYU Langone Medical Center named Rodolfo Llinás came up with a way to keep the brain of a young guinea pig alive in a fluid-filled tank for the length of a standard workday.
l7Ba1 TIL: 1897, the Buffalo Soldiers 25th Infantry Regiment Bicycle Corps embarked on a 1,900-mile journey from Montana to Missouri.
KYK0w TIL that those bizarre Mentos commercials shown in the USA in the nineties, were all produced in Germany, where the candy comes from.
Oov6Y TIL actors Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt were temporarily blinded with 'burnt retinas' on the set of Twister (1996) by bright lamps used to make the sky look stormy.