› added 9 years ago

280

TIL New York Times crossword puzzle editor, Will Shortz, is the only person in the world to have a degree in enigmatology, the study of puzzles.

Read more npr.org

via reddit.com

nWegP TIL a non-smoking, 65-year-old male in excellent health today has a 43% probability of living to age 90, and a similar 65-year-old female has a 54% probability of living to 90
wpxP TIL The Egyptians, not Julius Caesar, were the fathers of the modern calendar. The Roman calendar was lunar and had 355 days. Egyptians knew it was 365 days because the Nile would peak on the same day each year. Caesar learned this from his affair with Cleopatra and created the Julian calendar.
4klJR TIL The famous, ethereal high C note that made Allegri's "Miserere Mei, Deus" famous was a result of a scribal error, and not in the original arrangement
OGyN4 TIL that while Danny Trejo was filming in "The Muppets: Most Wanted!" his mother passed. The cast all offered their sympathy but he shrugged it off because of his 'tough guy' persona. It wasn't until Steve Whitmire apologized in character as Kermit the Frog that Trejo broke down crying.
G7J5 TIL the colors of fire hydrants display the amount of water they provide