› added 7 years ago

167

TIL If our sun had a supernova it would be 9 times brighter to us than if an atomic bomb exploded against our eye

Read more wonderopolis.org

via ift.tt

EJn7 TIL A female ninja is called kunoichi, which means “nine plus one.” This refers to the nine holes possessed by men, and the kunoichi’s mastery of the tenth
DrXD TIL The Hungarian serial killer Béla Kiss is thought to have murdered at least 23 young women and 1 man, and attempted to pickle them in giant metal drums. When WWI began, he was conscripted and left his house. When his crimes were discovered, he evaded capture and was never heard from again.
e0jPb TIL that One of the most famous figures tied to Egypt, Cleopatra VII, was actually Greek.
KOQNE By the 2030s, computer data storage may surpass 1 yottabyte (1024), the largest number with an official metric prefix.
M7oDm TIL that in 1938, a wallet manufacturer ran advertisements demonstrating that a Social Security card could fit into its wallets. In these ads, it used a sample card featuring the real Social Security Number of the company's secretary