› added 6 months ago

40

TIL in 1997, Lottie Williams was walking in a park when she felt a tap on her shoulder. After turning around and seeing no one there, she found that a piece of mesh had fallen from the sky and tapped her. An analysis revealed the mesh was from a Delta II rocket on re-entry.

Read more npr.org

via reddit.com

9wQkQ TIL The Wolf of Wall Street, a dark comedy about financial fraud, was itself funded by one of the biggest corruption scandals in modern financial history.
9wAyM TIL that the phrase "kills 99.9% germs" from alcohol ads make total sense because 0.1% of a population with 1 million germs leaves out not ONE survivor, but 10,000!
xVwQB TIL that you shouldn’t mix kiwi with dairy products (milk and yoghurt) because actinidain in kiwi breaks down milk proteins making it taste bitter (see no. 6)
a8dPJ TIL Crescent Wrench is a brand that was genericized to a category of wrenches
g0KW TIL The TLC network (Home of Honey Boo Boo, The Duggars, Little People, Sarah Palin’s Alaska, etc) was originally created by NASA and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to provide “real education through the medium of television”.