› added 8 years ago

158

TIL there are 17,000 fewer child deaths per day compared to 1990

Read more ourworldindata.org

via ift.tt

69Q TIL Using physics, we could use a small domino to create a chain reaction to knock over whatever, including buildings.
x61N7 TIL Jobs/Wozniak sold illegal blue box phone phreaking devices before founding Apple
xVNR0 TIL that Bikini atoll, the place where Bikini Bottom was named after, was declared a nuclear wasteland after the US dropped 23 bombs in the 1950s. However scientists have found thriving life in the center of it all, with evidence that life restarted a mere 10 years after the bombings.
jRrQ TIL the World’s Smallest Guitar is the Size of a Red Blood Cell.
QJkR6 TIL the phrase “butter someone up” is derived from a religious act in ancient India wherein the devout would throw butter balls at the statues of their favorite gods to seek favor and forgiveness.