› added 4 months ago

33

TIL the Sun pulses about every 5 minutes.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

groYb TIL that behind Mount Rushmore, there is a room that was intended to house America’s most important documents and give info about the carving of Mount Rushmore. However, construction on it was stopped when the government ordered the sculptor to focus on carving out the president’s faces.
QNlAX TIL Einstein cheated on his first wife and believed "most men are not monogamously endowed"
M7bOB TIL that to protect trade secrets, the glassmakers guild in thirteenth-century Venice would imprison a glassmaker’s family if the glassmaker left the city, and if he still didn’t return they’d send an assassin to kill him.
E1XDp TIL that the treasure hunting company, Odyssey, discovered the ship wreck of the HMS Sussex (1694) which had up to $500 million worth of gold on board in 2001. Despite a deal with the British government retrieve the loot, Spain refuses to let a team survey the site to this this day.
R78D9 TIL that once footage from Curb Your Enthusiasm helped clear an innocent man of murder by proving he was at a baseball game where a scene was shot at the time of the murder