› added 1 year ago

54

TIL Spy Kids is on the National Film Registry, being added in 2024

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

LQVOv TIL why Roman concrete often lasted thousands of years, but ours decays in mere decades.
ADBEa TIL that the first NBA game occured in November 1, 1946 with the matchup of the New York Knicks and the Toronto Huskies in Toronto in front of 7,090 fans with the score of 68-66 in favor of the knicks
OoLJL TIL The rumors about Tesla using Colbalt from child labor is false. They use no Colbalt since 2018, and the least of any lithium battery manufacturer.
dDN79 TIL that the infamous Pac-Man kill screen is caused by an overflow error causing the game to try and draw 256 pieces of fruit. However, the code then starts drawing random garbled pieces of memory, causing half the screen to get covered in random graphics that the game interprets as fruit.
Y7x9Z TIL Dabitum, a slave-girl during the Old Babylonian period (c. 1900–1600 BC), is known today for her letter to her slave master concerning a miscarriage, which she wrote either herself or with the help of a scribe, to the absent father to communicate the distressing news and beg for help