› added 12 years ago

392

TIL in 1985 a New Orleans man drowned at pool party attended by 100 lifeguards celebrating a summer with no drownings!

Read more nytimes.com

via reddit.com

AD6dw TIL Chinese Empress Cixi once remarked that she has heard much of Queen Victoria but she did not think that "her life is half as interesting and eventful as mine". Under her, China attained the attributes of a modern state: industries, railways, electricity, telegraph, and an army and navy
jNZ8a TIL in 2003 a high school football player set a new record for career passing yardage; he later found out that both teams' coaches had conspired in his last game to ensure he'd beat the record, and he requested that the yardage from that game be expunged from his record, relinquishing the record
wLjo6 TIL in 1993 Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn paid kidnapper Ray Marion Cuddy $1.45 million in $100 bills for the return of his daughter. Cuddy was caught soon after trying to buy a Ferrari Testarossa with $100 bills.
GAyO4 TIL that out of the most common 75 fruits, the relatively healthiest fruit are raspberries, whilst the least healthy are persimmons.
j6QVN TIL an average-sized 1 km3 cumulus cloud (the white fluffy ones) weighs approx. 551 tons or 1.1 million pounds. They float because the surrounding dry air is denser than the cloud.