› added 9 years ago

317

TIL the light we see from the north star was emmited in the year 1692

Read more news.nationalgeographic.com

via reddit.com

OGooY TIL Edgar Whisenant, former NASA engineer, wrote a multi-million-copies-sold book about the Rapture happening in 1988. When it didn't, he wrote another one about it happening in 1989, then 1993, and finally in 1994. His predictions were unsuccessful.
V1vZ TIL That if the original Copyright Act of 1790 was still in effect, Everything made before 1989 would be public domain.
VBnPD TIL Our brains combine the signal from our nose and tongue to create flavor
Oorp7 TIL that the "Jedi Master and historian Ri-Lee Howell," was named after Riley Howell, a 21 year-old who died tackling the gunman during a shooting on the UNCC campus.
ZgWG TIL parents believed their 5 year-old daughter was possessed by evil spirits because of her increasing stomach, only to be told by a doctor that she was in fact, pregnant.