› added 5 years ago

357

TIL a new typeface, called Sans Forgetica, was designed to help students remember what they read by making reading slightly more difficult

Read more rmit.edu.au

via reddit.com

gxMD TIL that US President Richard Nixon tried to convince other leaders that he was insane, thus (supposedly) preventing them from provoking the US for fear of an irrational response.
M9vK TIL that the movie, U-571, states that Americans were responsible for capturing the first enigma machine. The truth is that the first enigma machine was captured by the British, 7 months before the Americans entered the war.
NXnvE TIL: Umwelt, or the self-centered world of different organisms
Qoo6 TIL the Polish National anthem promises coming back from Italy to Poland and the Italian National anthem speaks of spilling Italian and Polish Blood against a common enemy making them uniquely reference to each other.
o4XY TIL that JetBlue and Southwest are the only major US airlines with no fatalities