› added 11 years ago

195

TIL Harvard University is older than calculus.

Read more atheistnexus.org

via reddit.com

OGXEX TIL Alexander Fleming on discovering penicillin was quoted as saying: “When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I suppose that was exactly what I did.”
l7BgN TIL about Ball Lightning, a phenomenon in which people observe glowing balls of floating light. Observations of it go back to 1195 and have been witnessed by individuals all over the world
alkM TIL that about half of the water on Earth is actually melted interstellar ice that is older than the Sun
E6j7 TIL that D.W. Griffiths, who made the racist pro-KKK film “The Birth of a Nation”, responded to his critics with subsequent films that preached social justice and the first ever movie about an interracial love story.
16G1W TIL The LSST Camera has a (3,200 megapixel/3.2 gigapixel) sensor that can take images with high enough resolution to see a golf ball from (24 kilometers/15 miles) away; the images are so large that it would take 378 4K ultra-high-definition TV screens to display one of them in full size.