› added 10 years ago

167

TIL Humans are closer in time to Tyrannosaurus Rex than Tyrannosaurus Rex is to the Stegosaurus.

Read more smithsonianmag.com

via reddit.com

YpRlr TIL In 2004, Microsoft sued Mike Rowe for the domain MikeRoweSoft.com - They settled for an XBox and a selection of games
dW67 TIL Sears sold mail-order homes, between 1908 and 1940, as part of their Modern Homes program. They arrived as a kit, and included many modern conveniences, such as indoor plumbing. Some of these homes still exist today.
QvYa TIL Homer Hickam, subject of the movie October Sky, gave a high school junior a scholarship to the United States Advanced Space Academy when she was expelled and arrested for an exploding science experiment because Hickam went through the same ordeal for testing rockets in his youth.
PYmQE TIL that in WWII the US was going to use Bat Bombs on Japan to burn down houses and forests.
wo0Qo Til about Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln a Jewish conman and adventurer who “ posed as a Protestant missionary, Anglican priest, British Member of Parliament for Darlington, German right-wing politician and spy, Nazi collaborator, Buddhist abbot in China, and self-proclaimed Dalai Lama.