› added 11 years ago

178

TIL Abraham Lincoln signed legislation that created the Secret Service hours before he was assassinated.

Read more mentalfloss.com

via reddit.com

LQ6W0 TIL of Berserk Llama Syndrome. A dangerous behavior resulting from being coddled by humans at a young age.
waxE TIL Engineers used to rely on imprecise calculations with slide rules that only showed three decimal points but designed the Empire State Building, Saturn V rocket with them. As a result, they designed conservatively by making walls thicker and bridges stronger than needed
W7ekd TIL Yellowstone’s famed thermal pools can melt flesh and bone. In 2016, a tourist illegally searching for a swimmable hot spring fell into a portion of the Norris Geyser Basin, where his body was dissolved by the 450 degree, highly acidic water. His wallet and shoes were all that remained of him.
rX8x TIL that this chair scene in Austin Powers wasn’t scripted. The tech team was messing with Mike and he stayed in character so they just kept the scene.
pnxb TIL that in 1937 a bomb was dropped on Shanghai by a Chinese plane in an attempt to lighten its load while being pursued by Japanese planes. The bomb hit two department stores, killing 612 people and injuring another 482