› added 4 years ago

603

TIL the Croissant, far from being a French invention, is actually Austrian.

Read more altohartley.com

via reddit.com

Bgpjy TIL that data consistently show a spike in traffic deaths following the Super Bowl, and a spike in drunk-driving deaths specifically. For the five Super Bowls between 2015 and 2019, there were 244 total traffic deaths nationwide in the 12-hour period during and after the Super Bowl.
MadB TIL Harvard makes so much money from the interest on its endowment that even if the school gave free tuition to all of its students it would still make a profit
6M1Q TIL In Finland, traffic fines are proportionate to the latest available data on an offender’s income. In 2002, a Nokia director got a $103,600 fine for breaking the speed limit in Finland. He was driving at 75 km/h (47 mph) in a 50km/h (31 mph) zone.
n7wr TIL the largest lake in the world used to be in Sahara, but the sun dried it out leaving behind sediments - however the wind carries away 700.000 tons of this mineral rich dust every day, blowing all the way to South America where it fertilizes the Amazon Rainforest
1mar TIL California has been the subject of more than 220 proposals to divide it into multiple states, only 27 of which are serious.