› added 9 years ago

99

TIL that, on average, one Google search consumes the same amount of electricity as powering a 60 watt light bulb for 17 seconds.

Read more mastmedia.plu.edu

via reddit.com

JBrl TIL In 2011, four Wal-Mart employees we fired for disarming a gunman caught shoplifting.
awxZb TIL the Apollo program was named after the Greek god of light, music, and the Sun, by NASA manager Abe Silverstein. Silverstein chose the name at home one evening, early in 1960, because he felt "Apollo riding his chariot across the Sun was appropriate to the grand scale of the proposed program."
WRjY TIL a white flag is not actually a sign of surrender for boats at sea. It’s just a request to communicate. Taking your flag down is the universal sign of surrender.
VBkBG TIL The Nobel Prize committee has never rescinded the prize given to Egas Moniz for the invention of lobotomies
9DQ7 TIL that from 1952 to 1956, billions of Kent Micronite cigarettes were sold with a filter made from asbestos. The new filter was marketed as “the greatest health protection in cigarette history.”