› added 4 years ago

74

TIL that the dumpster was patented in 1935 by the Dempster Brothers. The first front-loading garbage truck that made use of dumpsters was called the Dempster Dumpmaster.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

VbdD TIL in 1927 an experiment was begun to show that solid pitch was actually a liquid. 89 years later the pitch has produced 9 drips.
P1WGe TIL of the estimated 20 million tons of gold in the oceans, worth $700 Trillion. All the gold humans ever mined is 208,874 tons.
bMeQ TIL that Frank Welker, the voice behind Scooby-Doo, Fred, Megatron, and more, has over 1,000 credits in voice acting, and, if the revenue from his credits was totaled, would be the highest-grossing actor of all time.
b60E9 TIL that the Danish word for "Pimp" is "Alfons," after the protagonist in the play Monsieur Alphonse by Alexandre Dumas, fils. As a result, although "Alfons" is the name of popular children's book character, the name remains very rare. As of 2016, there were only 8 people named "Alfons" in Denmark.
edBg TIL: At the height of its power, now bankrupt Kodak employed more than 140,000 people and was worth $28 billion. In comparison, when Instagram was sold to Facebook for a billion dollars in 2012, it employed only 13 people.