› added 11 months ago

36

Today I learned that between 1912 and 1946, ART was an actual olympic sport

Read more emarodigallery.com

via reddit.com

K4dE TIL that inmate Thomas Silverstein has spent the last 34 years in Solitary Confinement with no human contact at all.
V09m TIL In the Vietnam War, the US military produced recordings of ghostly voices and eerie sounds to play to the Vietcong, who believed that if a body wasn’t buried, the person’s soul would wander the Earth forever
XQ0Q TIL that by the time you get to the 39th digit of Pi, you can calculate the circumference of the known universe to within the width of an atom.
4B4o TIL when someone asked British PM Margaret Thatcher if she was concerned about Germany beating England in football, she said “No, we already beat them twice this century at their national game.”
yQe1w TIL Canada's CBC studied purity of bottled water to find microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study