› added 3 years ago

72

TIL Radioactive Spark Plugs were sold in the 1940s under the theory the radiation made the engine run better.

Read more orau.org

via reddit.com

x6NKg TIL a new measurement type – Smoots
Lky7P TIL of Monica Bonilla, a girl who was kidnapped by her father in 1982. 8 years later, Unresolved Mysteries aired a segment on her and a viewer gave a tip that a girl they knew resembled her. They were mistaken. By chance, the tip still led police to Monica, and they rescued her from her father.
RMml TIL the collective term for cardinals (the bird) is a Vatican
KOYDE TIL about Special Operations Weather Team (SOWT) - a team of skilled fighters in top physical condition who interpret meteorological data, often in hostile territory, and deliver crucial information to air and ground forces.
D1oDY TIL that albatrosses can fly 16,000 km (10,000 mi) without landing