› added 11 years ago

301

TIL The true size of Africa.

Read more i2.wp.com

via reddit.com

4kera TIL Tracey Chapman performed her biggest hit Give Me One Reason 6 years before it's release on Saturday Night Live in 1989
A7O4 TIL The term Smoke testing comes from the initial test of a circuit board. If there’s no smoke coming out when it’s first powered up, then the board’s probably okay.
N77l1 Short answer: It's automated
M6Rm TIL there’s a man with a neurological condition rendering his vision, feeling and hearing out of sync. He hears people speak before seeing their lips move, and can hear own his voice before he feels his jaw movements.
xVAnk TIL the California Institute of Abnormalarts has an embalmed corpse of a 100-year-old dead French clown, preserved under glass in full makeup. “They’re pre-1925 human remains, so we don’t need a permit,”