› added 8 years ago

267

TIL There’s an amusement park in Vegas that lets you drive construction equipment in a giant sandbox

Read more themarysue.com

via ift.tt

vpK8 TIL Retired NYC subway cars are thrown into the Atlantic Ocean to help create artificial reefs.
6EkNm TIL a fire in 2008 destroyed the master recordings of hundreds of artists, including John Coltrane, Joni Mitchell, R.E.M. and Eminem
DQyg TIL that during WW2, American and Australian troops developed a hybrid version of their respective types of football. To make the game fair to both sides, players were awarded a mark after either a caught kick or a thrown pass. The game was known as Austus.
1aDwr TIL of a man, who in 1977 rode his bike from India to Sweden to be with the women he would end up marrying.
e0Ryn TIL That in the final year of Stephen Hawkings life his signature voice was actually running on a Raspberry Pi partially using code from the Super Nintendo emulator 'Higan'