› added 3 years ago

131

TIL Poland was the only eastern bloc country to transmit the moon landing on state television.

Read more przekroj.pl

via reddit.com

be0j TIL that the creator of NBA Jam hated the Chicago Bulls so much that he coded it so that they would miss last second shots against the Detroit Pistons.
Z8KVp TIL of Solar Storm of 2012. It was an event on July 23 that produced a solar outburst that was comparable to the Solar Storm of 1859, which destroyed all electrical equipment. However, this solar outburst narrowly missed Earth by 9 days; it would have cost an estimated $2.6 trillion in damages.
50VP TIL that, after Richard Feynman was named the world’s smartest man by Omni magazine, his mother said, “If that’s the world’s smartest man, God help us.”.
XPoE TIL that Eminem’s daughter Hailie Scott (also known as Hailie Jade Mathers), graduated as Suma Cum Laude in High School and currently taking up Psychology at Michigan State University
8aWya TIL about the Lloyd's Bank Coprolite, the largest piece of human feces ever found by archeologists. It tragically broke into three pieces in 2003 after being dropped on show at an exhibition.