› added 5 years ago

74

TIL that in 1991 Cornell Engineering's Acceptance Rate for Women was 61%

Read more irp.dpb.cornell.edu

via reddit.com

pkvb TIL Between 2012 and April 2014, there were two bands named Queensryche performing the same material and utilizing the band’s brand due to a lawsuit between the lead singer and rest of the band.
9YQdD The research argues that gravitational waves give off echoes which, if confirmed, would prove that black holes don't exist and are, in fact, wormholes.
GAMeN TIL a study that involved listening in on normal conversations at local malls found that out of 1,200 observed “laugh episodes,” only about 10% were generated by a joke. The laughter was primarily generated from social cues through its bonding function between individuals in a group.
Oo8RR TIL about Gerner's Mean World Syndrome- the more negative news/shows/etc people expose themselves to, the more dangerous they think they world is (becoming less and less accurate in their assessment)
e1dn TIL that when the US government renamed a fish species from ‘slimehead’ to 'orange roughy’ it went from being relatively unknown, to becoming a threatened species within a decade.