› added 2 years ago

93

TIL the creator of the Comic Sans font, Vincent Connare, credits Batman and Watchmen as his inspiration for the design

Read more cnet.com

via reddit.com

An1w TIL in 2008 pranksters hacked into a Czech weathercast and added a nuclear bomb blast to the live video of the view outdoors.
1aX1O TIL, In Greek, Beta is pronounced like a V and MP is used in place of B
aGRJ TIL: If you wrote on your resume or a job application that you were Time magazine’s 2006 person of the year, you would not be lying.
VBR40 TIL that as of 2008, around 30 patients in the U.S. were still using iron lungs.
po4A TIL that Microsoft Encarta (original codename “Gandalf”) began as a pet project for Bill Gates around 1985 after being rejected by Encyclopaedia Britannica as a partner in making material available to PC users as a CD-ROM. Encarta’s eventual demise in 2009 was widely attributed to Wikipedia