› added 4 years ago

70

TIL In the 1960's, a gun fired bullets that had tiny little rockets inside to give no recoil and high stability. Today, they cost around $100 per round.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

Lp1p TIL Nicolas Cage owned a pet octopus and claimed it helped with his acting.
J1Jwv TIL that swimmer Eric Moussambani won the 2000 Olympic 100m freestyle despite never seeing an Olympic-sized pool before. Qualifying for the games from a wildcard for developing countries, his two competitors were disqualified, and he swam alone. He won despite finishing with the slowest time ever
xMXg TIL that the snow you see on analog televisons is a signal caused partially by the cosmic radiation of the Big Bang
rW9M TIL in Japan, the “Logitech” brand is called “Logicool”.
4nnN TIL: In the original game Space Invaders, the game increasing speed as you killed aliens was due to the processor being able to render graphics faster as less aliens were on screen. This was an unintended “feature” they decided to keep as a gameplay mechanic.