› added 2 years ago

144

TIL Einstein used to make mistakes in his income returns, but tax authorities did not raise issues with him

Read more terpconnect.umd.edu

via reddit.com

YpZYP TIL that in 1980 Glenn Seaborg turned several thousand atoms of bismuth into gold by removing protons and neutrons from the bismuth at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
Z81OB TIL about Operation Sandblast, the first submerged circumnavigation of the world in 1960, which took 60 days and 21 hours to complete. They generally followed the same path used by Ferdinand Magellan in the first circumnavigation of the world in 1519.
oylA TIL China is creating a car-free city from scratch: “Great City will be built around a high-rise core housing 80,000 people, entirely walkable, and surrounded by green space.” It designed to use less water, create less waste and generate less carbon dioxide than a normal city.
GYnB7 TIL that in the mid 1800s people believed that travelling by train could cause insanity due to the high speeds.
rNRW1 TIL that there is an enormous 1,300 year old set of ruins on an island in the middle of a lake in the middle of Siberia and archaeologists are unsure why it's there