› added 3 years ago

99

TIL that the "lower bar" on women's bikes is antiquated and was created to accommodate the heavy dresses women wore in the late 1800s

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

QNrE6 TIL tango was originally a male dance
RNbw TIL that on the first season of the US Kitchen Nightmares, every restaurant but two closed, including one where the chef committed suicide
1mPV TIL that when Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared in 1926, the police asked Arthur Conan Doyle to help find her.
RKQl TIL that a German POW escaped his American prison camp near the end of WWII, and lived in the US for 40 years under a fake name, before finally admitting the fraud on the Today Show. His name was Georg Gärtner.
XE5xk TIL that in 2006, Channel 4's "Gadget Show" tested the durability of an 'Indestructible USB' by cooking it with propane, freezing it with dry ice, submerging it in acidic liquids, running over it in a Jeep, and firing it against a wall with a mortar cannon - all data was recovered from the USB.