› added 1 year ago

71

TIL that there is a company converting (rebuilding?) DC-3s to turboprops

Read more youtu.be

via reddit.com

p8xep TIL that the US's National Weather Service has a computer model to predict storm surges due to hurricanes called the Sea, Lake and Overland Surges from Hurricanes model, or SLOSH.
E14QV TIL: During the Islamic invasions of India, many Jains temporarily let go of their principal of ahimsa (absolute non-violence) in order to defend the destruction of their temples.
VMJB TIL that Gustav III of Sweden considered coffee so dangerous he ordered two doctors to conduct an experiment on twin brothers: One would drink 3 pots of coffee and the other 3 pots of tea, every day for the rest of their lives. The docs and the king all died before the experiment was completed.
Oow4X TIL that the US recorded Germany’s nuclear scientists (most of whom thought an atomic bomb was impossible) finding out about Hiroshima
KO1lE TIL there are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on Earth, but more molecules in 10 average sized drops of water, than stars in the observable universe!