› added 4 years ago

69

TIL in the Mongol army if one soldier ran from danger in battle he would be killed along with the nine comrades in his unit

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

ZpMdp TIL that the only piece of acting Jack Nicholson did since 2010 was for 2019 video game Trover Saves the Universe, where he voices a tree. The voice was recorded by Justin Roiland, the game producer, at Nicholson's house and is featured in the game as a part of an Easter egg, still to be found.
kJpnm TIL that Colorado has an active volcano that last erupted around the same time the pyramids in Egypt were being constructed.
58PR TIL Lego has an underground vault, containing one copy of each Lego set ever made
gj8D TIL that IBM was so powerful in 1983 that people feared that its PCjr home computer would destroy Apple, Commodore, and all other competitors. The PCjr became “one of the biggest flops in the history of computing”.
5B1R TIL the world’s first glow-in-the-dark bike path, with swirling patterns inspired by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh’s famous ‘Starry Night’ painting, is open and free to the public in Holland.