› added 4 years ago

271

TIL We are likely living in a simulation

Read more simulation-argument.com

via reddit.com

OpRe TIL that the UK’s royal family’s last name ‘Windsor’ is actually taken from Windsor castle, rather than vice versa.
VMVmB TIL about Alice Ball, an African American woman who, in 1915, at the age of 23 revolutionized the treatment for leprosy, by creating an soluble & injectable treatment from chaulmoogra oil.
X09dQ TIL the name “Phoenix” for the capital of Arizona stems from the history of the city being built on previously constructed canals by the Hohokam, just as the Phoenix in mythology rises from the ashes of its former iteration
4XnDJ TIL the Christmas song "Do You Hear What I Hear?" is a song written by a couple in 1962 as a plea for peace during the Cuban Missile crisis.
R7Wl4 TIL of Enno I, Count of East Frisia (1460-1491). His sister eloped with a nobleman and ran off with the family jewels. Believing she had been kidnapped, he followed the pair to the nobleman's castle and tried to cross the frozen moat. His armor was too heavy; he fell through the ice and drowned.