› added 12 years ago

98

TIL Obelus is the proper term for a division sign.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

7DNb TIL That prior to Westerners coming to Japan there had been a ban on red meat. The Emperor repealed the ban because he believed it was responsible for the Westerners greater size.
pkyA TIL That the film “Jeepers Creepers” was based on an actual unsolved murder: Easter Sunday 1990 outside of Coldwater, MI, Ray & Marie Thorton were chased & tormented on Snowperry RD, by a strange masked man in a blood-soaked Chevy van, after witnessing him dump a body by an abandoned school.
yGGp TIL the explosion from the first nuclear weapon test at Trinity was so bright that Georgia Green, a blind woman almost 50 miles away, asked her brother “What’s that light?”
QN8NE TIL that Microsoft has developed an underwater data center powered by renewable energy sources and cooled by the natural temperature of the ocean water. The experiment, called "Project Natick," was conducted off the coast of Scotland in 2018.
Y7yVW TIL Isaac Newton was extremely religious, and he rejected the Trinity.