› added 2 months ago

13

TIL about when two Lithuanian pilots, Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas, tried to fly a plane named Lituanica from New York to Kaunas, Lithuania in 1933. The Lituanica made it across the Atlantic but fatally crashed 636 km short of the goal.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

R75lw National Geographic Fellow Jer Thorp explains the process behind designing "We Were Once Strangers Too," an award-winning public data sculpture that highlighted the role of immigrants in New York City.
b9nOp TIL Thomas Jefferson's epitaph, which he wrote himself, states "Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia." It makes no mention of his Presidency.
neQbd TIL how Pringles are made. They start off with potato dough, the dough is cut into potato-dough cookies, molded into curves, deep-fried, blown-dried, salted, stacked into cans and sold.
xVyW1 TIL that in 2015, the Missionaries of Charity (founded by Mother Teresa) shut down adoptions in all 30 of its orphanages rather than comply with new Indian laws that eased the adoption process for divorced and single people.
Y78Wx TIL I learned that the Uvalde Texas gunman wrote "LOL" on a whiteboard, using the blood of the children he shot.