› added 5 years ago

78

TIL - Climax, New York is a hamlet in the town of Coxsackie, Greene County, New York, United States

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

eQAD TIL: There is a ½ mile long wall in Detroit originally built to separate blacks from whites
lo7A1 TIL Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, believed that his professor at Harvard was giving him unfair grades. To prove it, he turned in a paper from George Orwell. He received a B-.
P1pLV TIL that objects known as optical frequency multipliers can double the frequency of a beam of light. This means that it's possible for them to convert invisible light (infrared) into visible light
r901 TIL That Rather Than Use CGI, Tim Burton Had 40 Squirrels Trained to Crack Nuts for Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
5Y1Yp TIL that the expression "wearing your heart on your sleeve" comes from the Middle Ages where people would litterally pin the name of their loved one on their sleeve for all to see.