› added 1 year ago

183

TIL Pickleball was actually created back in 1965.

Read more usapickleball.org

via reddit.com

KYyPB TIL that, as a gas giant, Saturn doesn’t have a true surface. The planet is mostly gases and liquids deeper down. While a spacecraft couldn't land on Saturn, it wouldn’t be able to fly through it. The extreme pressures and temperatures would vaporize any spacecraft trying to fly into the planet.
6owW TIL during 9/11 rescue dogs had found such few survivors, their handlers had to hide and allow the dogs to find them to boost spirits
NXnNQ TIL Redlining is a discriminatory housing practice that started in the 1920s and is still affecting things today. This includes people who lived in the redlined neighborhoods having a life expectancy difference of up to 25 years from those who lived a mile away in a non-redlined neighborhood.
BgrOL TIL that in 1946, the Argentinian government imported 50 beavers in an attempt to start a fur trade. There are now 200,000 and they are threatening over 39 million acres of forest.
XRbX TIL of the theory that in ‘Superman’ (1978), Superman doesn’t actually turn back time by litterally reversing the earth’s rotation. Instead, he himself travels to the past by flying faster than the speed of light, and the reversing earth is simply a visual metaphor for this.