› added 10 years ago

370

TIL Dr Seuss’ name rhymes with ‘Voice’ not 'Zeus’

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

VMBX0 TIL a little too much about the curious case of Chris Chan.
yANv TIL the highest recorded surface temperature on Mars was 95°F or 35°C by the Spirit Rover.
5JLQ TIL Jimmy Page played rhythm guitar on the 007 title song for “Goldfinger”
ZpDmo TIL that NFL Football Legend James Brown played a part in the “Watts Truce” of 1992 which ended violence between the Bloods and the Crips. Brown died on May 18, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Z8NvQ TIL astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who as a student discovered pulsars, credits her discovery to impostor syndrome and a fear of being kicked out of college; “I’m a bit of a fighter, so I decided until they threw me out I would work my very hardest". That discovery earned the 1974 Nobel Prize.