› added 4 years ago

306

TIL “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.” is a typing drill written by a teacher named Charles E. Weller. “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.” is now used instead, because it exactly fills out a 70-space line.

Read more straightdope.com

via reddit.com

VBMWD TIL in 2019 one of Russia’s troll farms was evicted by the building owners after repeated bomb threats.
dAgr TIL the Japanese arcade game Space Invaders was so popular it caused a coin shortage.
Lk5Yr TIL that Scientists Hope to Clone a 40,000-Year-Old Extinct Horse. The baby horse was discovered in permafrost in eastern Siberia. The animal's tissue was preserved enough for scientists to obtain samples. There is no damage to the horse's carcass and even its hair is intact.
P1O7E TIL people who work at U.S. nuclear power plants are exposed to less radiation than what is given off by the granite walls inside the U.S. Capitol Building
am6N TIL there is a Japanese spirit that haunts people by bending over, revealing a giant eye protruding from his butthole