› added 4 years ago

47

TIL If you were to print a book writing out a Googolplex (10 to the power of a Googol(10 to the power of 100)) with each book having 400 pages and a mass of 100 grams (3.52oz) the amount of books required would have a mass greater then the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies combined.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

Awpw TIL that the Georgia House introduced a bill in 2003 making it a “misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature” for a restaurant to sell Iced Tea without also selling Sweet Tea
0dEkp TIL Rectal temperature is a method coroners can use to determine time of death
E1E4w TIL Teddy Roosevelt regularly staged boxing matches in the White House, taking on anyone he could - including professional boxers. He only stopped boxing when his eyesight was permanently damaged by a punch from his military aide, Col. Daniel T. Moore.
VZM4 TIL that the OED included a trap, made up word, “Esquivalience” which it defined to mean “the willful avoidance of one’s official responsibilities” as a copyright infringement trap which caught both Dictionary.com and Google Dictionary.
wojGE TIL that Yoko Ono created an experimental film called Self-Portrait. It's a 42 minute shot of John Lennon's semi-erect penis. It was shown once at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1969, and has never been seen or released since.