› added 8 years ago

213

TIL more Americans identify as Independent than as Democrat or Republican

Read more people-press.org

via ift.tt

KYLwJ TIL that in 1518, a "dancing plague" broke out in Strasbourg, where hundreds of people danced uncontrollably for days, with some dancing until they collapsed or died from exhaustion.
6ENNW TIL The Outer Space Treaty forbids any nation from trying to own the moon.
5p5p TIL that submarines have become so stealthy that 2 nuclear armed & powered subs collided in the Atlantic Ocean without detecting each other
6E7AZ TIL about the Demon Core, a 6.2 kilogram mass of plutonium. It was named as such after it claimed the lives of two scientists at Los Alamos Labratory in 1945/1946
GYdJ1 TIL We live in a time period where we have the most information about nutrition and exercise in human history at our fingertips but over 66% of the U.S. population is overweight.