› added 11 years ago

137

TIL that a worm’s mind has been mapped, replicated, and placed inside a Lego robot.

Read more smithsonianmag.com

via reddit.com

78r6M TIL a wedding can be performed in Montana without either of the people getting married being present. It is called a double proxy wedding, because there are two people(proxies) standing in for the people actually getting married.(2:30)
rEg4 TIL Christopher John Boyce was a convicted spy for the Soviet Union sentenced to 40 years in prison. In 1980, he escaped federal prison and was on the run for 1yr and 8 months, during which time he committed 17 bank robberies and studied aviation so he could eventually flee to the Soviet Union.
4pBN TIL there are emergency hotlines for Hall and Oats, Phil Collins, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan and Chicago. You can listen to their songs in an emergency.
nWKlY TIL that the first known literary usage of OMG was in a letter written to Winston Churchill in 1917
WkNGY TIL Richard Harris was so drunk through the 1970s that he forgot he owned a Rolls Royce. It sat in a New York garage for 25 years before he found an old photo of himself with it and his accountant confirmed it was still there running up $90k in garage storage costs.