› added 8 years ago

225

TIL: Martin Luther King Jr, convinced Nichelle Nichols to stay in her role on Star Trek because of the inspiration she had become to many other people

Read more washingtonpost.com

via ift.tt

Z8X4o TIL Theo Jansen has been creating strandbeesten, which are moving kinetic structures, sometimes wind-propelled, that resemble walking animals. All of his models are based on a system of triangles and connecting links which convert the rotation of an axle into a stepping motion of six or more legs.
71RO TIL a British supercentenarian died last year. Two months before his death, he told newspapers that he drank an elixir given to him by a doctor in Mumbai before WWI and was told, “drink this and you’ll live forever.”
m1Oly TIL that Hamida al-Attas, Osama Bin Laden's mother, was just 14 years old at the time when she became Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden's (48 years old) concubine before she was impregnated and married off to Mohammed Bin Laden's business associate, Mohammed al-Attas.
nQ9o TIL Microsoft used the question “Why are manhole covers round?” to assess how an interviewee would tackle a question with more than one correct answer.
DQBZv TIL Although the universe is only 14 billion years old, it is 92 billion light years wide