› added 11 years ago

77

TIL The Minoans, in the city of Knossos, had underground plumbing, including flushing toilets by 1900 BC

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

YpeOP TIL that Lego bricks helped solve a twenty-three year old cold case murder in 2014. The murderer allowed his child to play with the bricks in another room while murdering his victim, and fingerprints on a brick that was left behind allowed the police to connect the dots to the killer.
awp0L TIL "The Legend of Zelda" was not supposed to be the name of the series. It was intended to be called; "The Hyrule Fantasy", with The Legend of Zelda being the first games subtitle. When ported to the west, "The Hyrule Fantasy" was dropped, which inspired Nintendo to use Zelda as the franchise name.
PYNoZ TIL that the north and south portions of the Great Salt Lake in Utah are two separate colors. This is due to a railroad causeway disrupting the natural mixing of the lake's water resulting in part of the lake being saltier and promoting the growth of different types of algae.
EgoY0 TIL that despite the popular belief that the USSR possesed hundreds of ICBMs and was winning the arms race, in reality they possesed only four by 1961.
9YYa7 TIL Vice President Dick Cheney shot a man in the face, who then apologized for getting shot in the face.