› added 8 years ago

94

TIL during the WW1 Germans protested against the use of shotguns in trenches by the americans arguing Hague Convention forbid to employ arms that cause unnecessary suffering.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

o4BE TIL Daniel Day-Lewis hasn’t appear on stage since 1989 after he played Hamlet and claimed to see the ghost of his own father during the performance.
6PEJ TIL that the world’s most powerful commercially available flashlight can be used to start fires.
XEMYD TIL that cows routinely escape slaughterhouses in NYC, and often evade police for hours once they’re out.
wLoeJ "What if we could just cool the planet off by making it more reflective—more like a disco ball than a baseball? Actually, we could. It’s called solar geoengineering. Scientists could release materials into the stratosphere that reflect sunlight back into space, kind of like slapping giant sunglasses on Earth."
neyNB TIL Snooze lasts 9 minutes for 2 reasons. 1: The original snooze feature had to be worked in around the existing gearing of a clock, and keeping it in single digits was more technically logical. 2: If you sleep past the 10-minute mark, your body falls into a deep, making waking up more unpleasant.