› added 11 years ago

80

TIL In 1956, Frank Lloyd Wright wanted to build a mile-high building (528 stories) in Chicago. The World’s current tallest building, the Burj Khalifa is only ½ a mile high and was inspired by Wright’s design.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

GAv1Q TIL body cameras are being marketed for hospital workers in the U.S. and there are privacy concerns that this will cause footage of a patient's most intimate and private moments to be accessible by numerous hospital employees, hackers, and criminals.
6ERQY TIL The four rings in the Audi logo represent the four companies of the Auto Union - Audi, Horch, Wanderer and DKW. Horch for high-end luxury cars, Audi for deluxe cars, Wanderer stuck with standard mid-size cars and DKW decided to go with small cars and motorcycles.
XEg5Q TIL in 1998, 10 bodies were discovered in Benjamin Franklin’s basement during house renovations. The bodies belonged to his friend and anatomist William Hewson, who had a falling out with his mentor William Hunter and illegally procured them for study. Hunter’s body was not among them.
yJvX TIL Jimi Hendrix was once invited to play with Cream alongside Eric Clapton. In the middle of the show, Clapton walked off stage. He was found in the back shaking angrily and smoking a cigarette. When asked what was wrong, he simply replied, “You never told me he was that fucking good.”
BgdAK TIL about Prophyrios, a whale that wreaked havoc on ships over a 50 year period in Greece during the middle ages. The Greek king made it an important matter to capture it, though he could not come up with a way to do so.