› added 6 years ago

272

TIL that a single strand of Spaghetti is a "Spaghetto"

Read more bonappetit.com

via reddit.com

Yp6Xx TIL Eisenhower passed the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 after gaining an appreciation for the German Autobahn system after serving as Commander during WW2. The act included a 10-year, $100 billion program, which would build 40,000 miles of highways across America.
oBMvE TIL The most expensive domain name ever sold was www.business.com sold for a whopping 345 million USD
MeBY0 TIL that Draconic measures mean Severe, strictly even ridiculously harsh measures.
wmaP TIL according to recent research, 87.2% of employees want to leave their current jobs in 2014, and 52.6% said that it was because they did not trust their boss.
gMNEX TIL In 2019, the Wuhan Greenland Center under construction had its height scaled back from 636m to less than 500m