› added 7 years ago

263

TIL: Quarts and Liters are almost exactly the same

Read more metric-conversions.org

via reddit.com

AD67x TIL the Sikh religion has no hierarchy, all practitioners are equal.
YpxEv TIL that in the 1920's newly hired engineers at General Electric would be told, as a joke, to develop a frosted lightbulb. The experienced engineers believed this to be impossible. In 1925, newly hired Marvin Pipkin got the assignment not realizing it was a joke and succeeded.
dalQ TIL that a graffiti artist bought an abandoned warehouse in Iowa and recreated, in half-size, Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel ceiling.
OovjX TIL That one of the merchandising tie ins for the original Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure was a cereal with the tagline “A Most Awesome Breakfast Adventure”
NXvWN TIL: The first wireless smart home control unit was invented in 1975. It used radio frequencies to communicate with other smart devices in the home to control things like lighting and temperature.