› added 7 months ago

122

TIL that since the year 1960, London has only experienced six White Christmases

Read more standard.co.uk

via reddit.com

rNBrx TIL scientists made snails remember something that never happened to them
G8DG TIL 19th century Czech anatomist-physiologist, Jan Purkyně (Johann Purkinje), was so famous that when people from outside Europe wrote letters to him, all they had to put as the address was “Purkyně, Europe”.
86KZ TIL that Facebook has an “empathy team” to help its engineers and designers relate to the concerns of actual human beings.
Y7Yj7 TIL that when Winston Churchill was knocked over in 1931 in NYC it was during Prohibition, he was able to use it to his accident to his advantage though and was given a 'licence' to drink alcohol by his Doctor.
OoLNa TIL in the 1930s a DuPont chemist found that crystals of a substance called PTC (phenylthiocarbamide) tasted very bitter to some but were tasteless to others (about 75% taste bitterness). Researchers found three variants in a gene called TAS2R38. Two copies of this variant make you non-taster.