› added 6 years ago

310

TIL that in 2009 there was a race between an ISP and a carrier pidgeon to transport 4GB of data, the pidgeon won transporting the data in a little over an hour while the ISP only transferred 4% of the data.

Read more phys.org

via reddit.com

xJLD TIL Director Stanley Kubricks personal assistant was assigned many tasks including cutting fresh grass each day, laying it on the carpet for Kubricks cat to roll in, then vacuuming up the grass afterwards.
OGGrR TIL about the Viviers family, who moved from South Africa to Northern BC, Canada because of an extreme allergy to sunlight. Prince Rupert is one of the most reliably cloudy places on the planet, and the Viviers family won a Supreme Court decision to become permanent residents on medical grounds.
J1QKV TIL the famous photo of Marines raising the American flag over Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima taken on Feb. 23, 1945, was actually the second flag raised there that day. AP photographer Joe Rosenthal missed the first raising because he was "still climbing up the mountain at the time"
E1aQP TIL The Kuleshov effect is a film editing (montage) effect demonstrated by Soviet filmmaker Lev Kuleshov in the 1910s and 1920s. It is a mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation.
WaGA TIL the oldest cave paintings in the world are in the Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, France. Scientists originally thought they were 20,000 years old, but discovered they were 35,000 years old after further inspection