› added 4 years ago

238

TIL: Elizabeth Smart’s dad came out as gay, renounced the Mormon Church, and divorced his wife

Read more sltrib.com

via reddit.com

6NGm TIL in 1924 there was a steam powered car which could reach over 100 miles per hour, and it achieved about fifteen miles per gallon of kerosene with negligible emissions.
NXg1P TIL there was a secret hospital during WW2 that was ran by a female doctor Franja (the hospital was also named by her) where they also treaded 2 US pilots that were shot down. When the doctor got married, they used parts of the paraschute for her wedding blouse.
v1aw7 TIL there are no significant benefits of a gluten-free diet, if you do not have Celiac Disease
78QNX TIL that the date of Easter every year is based on the Moon Cycle
Zwdp TIL that gifs would load ~8 times faster if we converted them all to HTML5 video