› added 12 years ago

90

TIL that July 10th is Nikola Tesla Day

Read more teslasociety.com

via bit.ly

aw6ab TIL - China/Taiwan renamed Guardians of the Galaxy as: "Interplanetary Unusual Attack Team"
8LyL TIL When Henry Ford was shown newsreel footage of the Nazi concentration camps, he “was confronted with the atrocities which finally and unanswerable laid bare the bestiality of the prejudice to which he contributed, he collapsed with a stroke
VpKp TIL in 1983, pioneering urologist Sir Giles Skey Brindley injected himself with an erectile dysfunction medication in order to prove its effectiveness. He showed off his resulting erection at an academic conference, even approaching the audience members for them to closely inspect his “results”.
d8pvr TIL that before becoming a star in ER, George Clooney got his first role in E/R
QNaxL TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien began a sequel to Lord of the Rings, called The New Shadow, about Middle Earth quickly forgetting about the War of the Ring, with the elites of Gondor beginning to support the evils of Mordor