› added 5 years ago

113

TIL that a dry seasonal riverbed can be called a wadi

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

8abK8 TIL One can only hike on San Miguel Island (one of 5 in Channel Islands National Park) if accompanied by a ranger, due to the possibility of unexploded mines, bombs, and grenades.
XAxj TIL in the Great Plague in England, sufferers in a village called Eyam decided to quarantine themselves instead of running elsewhere. 260 out of 350 died, but their actions saved 1000s of others.
4Gvw TIL A zip bomb, also known as a zip of death or decompression bomb, is a malicious archive file designed to crash or render useless the program or system reading it. 42.zip was 42kilobytes when compressed but increased to 4.5 petabytes when decompressed.
Z8XYD TIL The largest Pyramid in the World is not in Egypt. It's actually located in Puebla, Mexico andis named the Great Pyramid of Cholula. It is an ancient Aztec temple with a base four times larger than Giza's, and nearly twice the volume. It's also hidden in a mountain.
9wPam TIL ten years after the first courses in electrical engineering were introduced at the University of Missouri, the main academic hall burned down. The cause of the fire was attributed to faulty electrical wiring