› added 1 year ago

111

TIL that In 2011, a Chinese construction company called Broad Sustainable Building built a 30-story hotel called the T30 in just 15 days in the city of Hunan. See comments for the rest.

Read more eco-business.com

via reddit.com

VWv4 TIL Snoop Dogg is invested financially in Reddit
PYr8L TIL That the books / elements of Avatar The Last Aibender were inspired by a 17th century Japanese martial arts manual containing 5 chapters: The books of Earth, Water, Fire, Wind and Void (spiritualism)
a80PL TIL McDonald's congratulated NASA Astronaut and former McDonald’s restaurant crew employee, Commander Leroy Chiao after his successful 200 day mission by presenting him with Big Mac and fries in Star City
PYvdZ TIL that John allen chau, christian missionary who famously was killed by the north sentinelese in India in 2018,tried to communicate with them in the xhosa Language(a south african language!), after which the natives often fell silent.
E1YQP TIL In 1953, after the shooting ended in the Korean War, the Americans dropped leaflets offering $100,000 to any North Korean pilot who landed a MiG-15 in South Korea. A defector arrived soon after and the plane was impounded and meticulously examined. Chuck Yeager was among the first to fly it.