› added 11 years ago

537

TIL a golfer was killed by his own club he threw in frustration. It bounced back and pierced his heart.

Read more nytimes.com

via reddit.com

XEmpQ TIL "call of the void" is that feeling when you think for a second about steering into oncoming traffic or jumping off a cliff for no reason although you would never do it.
v1gDD TIL about 20% of the people with absolute pitch also have synesthesia
EYO0 TIL if you turned the Rubik’s cube once every second it would take you 1400 trillion years to go through all the configurations. If you had started this project during the Big Bang, you still wouldn’t be done yet.
7EMZ TIL in a deleted scene from The Truman Show (1998), the show’s director described a plan to have a female actress seduce Truman into conceiving a child on air, then they’d create a parallel show to follow that child’s life.
BrYAL TIL about Dolbear's Law which is a formula for using crickets as a thermometer