› added 4 years ago

114

TIL the NFL requires every team to be owned by one owner or a small group, one of which must hold 1/3+ of the shares. The Packers are the only exception, community owned disallowing any single owner to own more than 200,000 shares.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

x6QV1 TIL about Terror Management Theory (TMT), developed by Greenberg, Solomon, and Pyszczynski, which explores how awareness of mortality creates deep psychological anxiety, managed through escapism and cultural worldviews that give life enduring meaning
oRnVo TIL Astatine is the rarest naturally-occurring element on Earth with even its "most-stable" isotope having a half-life of around 8 hours! A sample of the pure element cant be assembled as it would be instantly vaporised by the heat of its own Radioactivity! ( Astatos is Greek word for 'unstable' )
OGNv4 TIL in 1987, the residents of the atoll island of Faaite in French Polynesia were gripped by mass hysteria brought on by Tahitian cultists who had taken control of the local church leadership and spread rumors of demon possession which culminated in six locals being burned alive on a bonfire.
lood1 The boomerang seems as Australian as ''Waltzing Matilda,'' but the oldest specimen may have come from a far distant part of the world -Poland. Scientists, there have found a 23,000-year-old piece of the curved mammoth tusk that some ancient artisan carved and polished into the aerodynamic shape of a boomerang.
l6gr TIL that the US had 65 nuclear armed B52s on 24 hours flights, orbiting within striking distance of the USSR during the Cuban missile crisis