› added 9 years ago

2608

TIL the average American will meet around 10 unapprehended murderers in their lifetime.

Read more leozqin.me

via reddit.com

OoDy1 TIL In the Middle Ages charity events called "help ales" were thrown by brewing up a big batch of ale, having a big party to drink it, and collect donations.
EgZX0 TIL that Valve hires actual Psychologists for the development of their games and designs, including "Conduct statistical analyses on Valve's gameplay, financial, and company data to identify patterns of behavior"
kOp51 TIL that last year, researchers from the University of British Columbia figured out how to convert blood type A into the universal Type O, which all patients can receive in a transfusion, regardless of their own blood type. This could broaden the supply of blood and ease shortages.
M7O18 TIL about Marion Stokes a Philadelphia woman who compulsively recorded and stored over 40,000 VHS tapes of news broadcasts between 1979 and 2012
Wkm6X TIL of a term 'Revenge Bedtime Procrastination' which is "a phenomenon in which people who don’t have much control over their daytime life refuse to go to sleep early in order to regain some sense of freedom during late night hours."