› added 7 years ago

92

TIL In English, zero quantities are plural by default. Therefore you shall write “0 results found”, “I have found no results”

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

LQoRv TIL British rock band The Who was at Shepperton Studios filming a music video and in the adjoining studio, They were shooting the egg room scene from the movie Alien. The Director borrowed the laser from the who to make the effect with the smoke and the laser over the top of the eggs.
AD757 TIL the Pot-in-pot refrigerator uses a porous outer clay pot (lined with wet sand) containing an inner pot within which food is placed. The evaporation of the outer liquid draws heat from the inner pot, and requires only a flow of relatively dry air and a source of water, but no electricity.
eYP5 TIL the Aztecs had penalties for being drunk which ranged from head-shaving to the death penalty.
XwNP TIL that a High School student served 5 years in jail and had to register as a sex offender after being falsely accused of rape by a classmate of his, because she didn’t want her mother to know she was sexually active.
VZJG TIL a bird that is endemic to the Amazon Basin called the Hoatzin is hatched with claws on its wings; A genetic remnant that is evidence of birds dinosaurean lineage.