› added 5 years ago

241

TIL that not all toasters use the numbers on the dial to determine toastiness.

Read more eatthis.com

via reddit.com

v1xVR TIL of Eilmer of Malmesbury, an 11th century English monk who built a flying machine inspired by the myth of Daedalus. He successfully flew 200 meters off the roof of his abbey before crashing because he forgot to include a tail in the design.
78Anb TIL about the El Cid Castle, an abandoned castle-like building in Phoenix, Arizona that was supposed to be a bowling alley but it took 20 years to complete and closed a year after it was opened after the owner was arrested for diversion of Medicare funds, that made him go bankrupt.
GYem4 TIL: When Pokémon go was first released, the game improved the US’s activity levels by 144 billion steps in just 30 days
8emWL TIL of Nzeli, a female Gorilla monitored by the Fossey foundation: at 37 years old, she has been observed voluntarily switching between family groups 10 different times, occasionally leaving her infants behind
aQKo TIL when the space station Skylab fell to Earth in 1979, it landed in Esperance, Western Australia. The Shire of Esperance fined NASA $400 for littering, which went unpaid for 30 years until a radio host raised the money and paid it on behalf of NASA.