› added 9 years ago

60

TIL of Arunima Sinha, an Indian national (now, ex) volleyball player. She was pushed out from a moving train by thieves. Immediately, a train coming in from a parallel track crushed her leg, forcing it to be amputated later on. Today, she is the first female amputee to climb Mt. Everest.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

WkxQ4 TIL "flushable" wipes cause major clogs in sewers and should not be flushed down the toilet
PYNBw Today I learned that the Irish call the cupboard that the domestic hot water tank is in the “hot press”
E1rO0 TIL the Korean word for “Swiss army knife” is “maekgaibeo kal” which literally means “McGyver knife”
QJJpe Looking into whether doing so would work
DQBkY TIL that if America’s coastal watershed counties were considered an individual country, they would rank number three in GDP globally, behind the U.S. as a whole and China. [economic value of living near water]