› added 6 years ago

344

TIL that 80% of toilets in Hong Kong are flushed with seawater in order to conserve the city's scarce freshwater resources

Read more cacs.org

via reddit.com

DQo1r TIL: The last surviving widow of the American Civil War passed away in 2021. In 1936, 17 year old Helen Jackson secretly married 93 year old Civil War veteran James Bolin. He passed away just three years later. Helen would live to the age of 101.
loMDV TIL, in 2001, Kodak attempted to shift quickly from film to digital cameras. They jumped to #2 in digital camera sales by taking a loss of $60 on every camera sold
nOgP TIL the Canadian flag has only existed since 1965
VBJAQ TIL there are no Burger Kings in Australia thanks to a single restaurant already having the name so they chose Hungry Jack's instead
1654d TIL The scene in Spider-Man (2002) where Peter Parker catches Mary Jane’s tray in the school cafeteria does not have any CGI. The whole thing was actually done by Tobey Maguire himself. It took him 156 takes to get it perfectly.