› added 8 years ago

186

TIL just while taxiing to take-off, the Concorde burned more fuel than a 737 flying from London to Amsterdam

Read more motherboard.vice.com

via ift.tt

djwd TIL Blue Star Lines is building a replica of the Titanic, called Titanic II, it is planned to sail the original path from England to New York in 2018
d8VNQ TIL Detroit-style pizza was invented when locals baked Sicilian-style pies in cast-iron trays originally created for use in the automobile industry
WdbY TIL in 1976 there was a wine tasting competition in Paris that blindly compared Californian wines to French wines. California won and the lone reporter covering the event was blacklisted for reporting it.
loYaa TIL about Typhoid Mary: the first asymptomatic carrier of typhoid. In her job as a cook she infected 51 people. She was forcibly isolated for 3 years; being released on the promise she didn’t return to cooking. She did return, was caught and confined for the remainder of her life (23 years).
jgvn TIL that there s a large-ish group of people who call themselves Otherkin who self-identify as animals, real or fictional, and even inanimate objects apparently.