› added 9 years ago

110

TIL Buzz Aldrin punched a conspiracy theorist, Bart Sibrel, in the face for doubting he was on the Moon

Read more nerdist.com

via reddit.com

QYK6 TIL that in the entire state of Wyoming there are only 2 escalators
yZDV TIL That you probably know what “huh” means no matter what language you speak
OwVX TIL there is a long history of US Vice Presidents disliking the job. John Adams called it “the most insignificant office… contrived,” FDR’s Vice President Garner called it “not worth a bucket of warm piss,” and Truman joking Vice Presidents were “about as useful as a cow’s fifth teat.”
GXWj TIL that many quantum mechanical properties can be replicated on the macro scale using silicon droplets bouncing on a sheet of vibrating silicon. These droplets act like quantum mechanical particles and can even replicate Young’s double slit experiment on a human scale.
Z8mwo TIL Canada didn't become fully independent from the UK until 1982