› added 5 years ago

76

TIL: Windows specific keyboards have a menu button that lets you right click from your keyboard (Three lines in a square)

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

Qvw6 TIL that Clair Patterson, the geochemist who discovered the Earth’s age to be 4.5 billion years old using lead isotopic data from the Canyon Diablo meteorite, also spearheaded the campaigning of the US government to finally ban of the use of lead in gasoline, paint and food packaging.
nWeGb TIL that the #1 leading cause of death for a pregnant woman in the United States is homicide.
BgbZx TIL in 2015 an unemployed 30-year old Princeton grad killed his rich father when his allowance was cut down from $1,000/week to $300. He received a 30 year prison sentence
LoZr Today I learned Peter Jackson owns the movie rights to a book series about Dragons in the Napoleonic War
NXAjM TIL Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (1983) was first made as Smokey IS the Bandit, where Jackie Gleason played a dual role of both Sheriff Justice and a new Bandit character, effectively chasing himself. Confusion from test audiences made them reshoot the movie with Jerry Reed as the new Bandit.