› added 1 year ago

53

TIL Antipodes are two spots on the Earth on the exact opposite sides from the planet's center. There is a group of islands in New Zealand called the Antipodes Islands because they are almost the exact antipode of London, England.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

OE77 TIL that just before the Halifax Explosion, a train dispatcher who saw the cargo ship with the explosives catch fire sent a message saying “Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbor making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys.”
DQwKP TIL that Wyoming spends $136,000 on each prison inmate annually, while Mississippi spends $18,410. The average state spends $45,771.
b6Omp TIL The modern world would largely depends on Congo but we massacre it instead.
jdla TIL that when Harald Bohr (brother of Niels Bohr), noted Danish mathematician & footballer, defended his doctoral thesis the audience consisted of more football fans than mathematicians.
N7kEP TIL building walls in curves takes less bricks