› added 1 year ago

71

TIL the man who discovered the LED died of starvation.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

a8QLN TIL 1980s synthpop band Heaven 17 named themselves after a fictional pop band in "A Clockwork Orange". The fictional Heaven 17 are said in the novel to be at #4 in the charts with their song "Inside"; the real life Heaven 17's best-selling single "Temptation" peaked at #4 on the UK charts
aNRN TIL: There is a name for a belief system where you simply don’t care if there is a god or not
nWE5r TIL a message in a bottle originating from Massachusetts by a 5th grader named Ben Lyons in 1997 washed ashore last year in France and was found by Hubert Eriau. Ben's bottle was part of a class project he did while studying the ocean currents. Ben began his message with "Dear Beachcomber."
kJ8YW TIL about the infamous Ash Wednesday bushfires that ravaged the states of South Australia and Victoria on the 16th of February 1983. The fires burnt 3 million acres in a single day claiming a total of 75 lives and a total insurance cost of $324 million. ($1.16 billion adjusted for inflation)
J1AkB TIL Teddy Roosevelt's mother was the inspiration for Scarlet O'Hara in Gone With the Wind.