› added 5 years ago

440

TIL that Vincent Van Gogh might have been murdered by a teenage bully who dressed as a cowboy.

Read more vanityfair.com

via reddit.com

R5rZa TIL that the original Apollo mission was concerned about losing the astronauts and capsule to quicksand on the Moon
Mek40 TIL that people who take the popular Meyers-Briggs personality test twice have a 50% chance of getting completely different results the second time
165gr TIL ancient geographers knew that Earth was a sphere but there was intense debate on the question if the opposite side of the planet is also inhabited by humans (called Antipodeans). Most thought that Antipodeans do not exist because intense heat at the equator forms an impassable barrier.
78npb TIL the life expectancy of people with down syndrome has risen from 25 years old in 1983 to 60 years old today.
ep4A5 TIL: "Oreology" and Oreologist" are actual scientific terms. which studies the flows and fractures of Oreos and whether they can be evenly split in a way that the creme filling is equal. PhD candidates even invented an "Oreometer". The study led people to be familiar with rheology, the actual field.