› added 5 years ago

121

TIL that tesla coils can be made in such a way to play music

Read more youtube.com

via reddit.com

VBKR0 TIL Rich Harvard Law Professor sued tiny Chinese Restaurant for $4 and lost both case and his job.
ymYX TIL that when the Declaration of Independence was being drafted, Benjamin Franklin suggested that the word “sacred” be replaced with “self-evident” because he believed that the nation should be founded on reason, not faith.
PY7Zg TIL that in Denmark, Norway, and the Faroe Islands there was a tradition for girls to give their man a knitted “testicles mitten” to see if he was ready for marriage.
9YKn6 TIL Evariste Galois, genius French mathematician, felt certain he would die the next day in a duel he had been challenged to over a woman and stayed up all night solving a problem that had tormented mathematicians for centuries. He died the next day at 21 but his work that night endures still today.
QNBVd TIL in the late 1960s there was a micronation constructed on a platform in the Adriatic Sea called The Republic of Rose Island.