› added 11 years ago

229

TIL people who believe in the paranormal are more likely to “see” nonexistant things in images

Read more psmag.com

via reddit.com

YpP0x TIL Bamboo can be used in construction as a viable material to reinforce concrete since bamboo has a tensile strength on par with steel.
b6Ml7 TIL the 1965 Spiegelman's Monster experiment demonstrated genetic replication and evolution in real-time at the molecular level, showing how natural selection could drive the emergence of more efficient genetic replication, even in an artificial setting.
VM9jQ TIL Margaret Ann Neve was the first recorded female super-centenarian and second validated human to live to 110 years old (1792-1903).
v7mB TIL that 1.7 billion years ago, there was a natural nuclear reactor that ran for a few hundred thousand years.
KePB TIL that the Big Brain on Futurama was played by Maurice LaMarche, the voice of Brain on Pinky and the Brain