› added 2 years ago

78

TIL that The development of the first eyeglasses took place in northern Italy in the second half of the 13th century

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

rNQye TIL a man discovered a trick for predicting winning tickets of a Canadian Tic-Tac-Toe scratch-off game with 90% accuracy. However, after he determined that using it would be less profitable (and less enjoyable) than his consulting job as a statistician, he instead told the gaming commission about it
kONPE TIL "jerry-rigged" is actually spelled "jury-rigged," from "jury" as in "temporary" and "rig" from its sailing origins.
Nr6Q TIL at normal speed, it takes a fully loaded supertanker/oil tanker approximately 20 minutes to stop, they cut their engines 15 miles away from the dock
pYnEG TIL that seagulls not only eat other birds and animals, but are cannibals and often eat seagull chicks, even their own.
YpaLZ TIL The richest person in Hong Kong is a high school dropout who first started a plastic flower company in 1950