› added 2 years ago

57

TIL that in 1830, the Conic Sections Rebellion, Yale students protested having to draw diagrams on their final exams.

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

vL7j TIL the S Pen in the Samsung Galaxy Note devices doesn’t have its own battery. Instead, it makes use of electromagnetic fields radiating from the device itself to power itself via magnets and electromagnetic currents
j6A5R TIL that the Doors’ second manager, Danny Sugerman, began working with the Doors when he was just 12 years old, by answering their fan mail. Following the death of Jim Morrison in 1971, Sugerman replaced the original Doors’ manager, Bill Siddons, at just age 17.
dJr8 TIL Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Neil Armstrong (+ many others) were all Deists. They believed God did not interfere or effect events on Earth - a view seen as herecy throughout most of their lives.
e0d7J TIL Ash Ketchum comes from CATCH EM ALL...
6E00l TIL the Sovient Union developed a nuclear weapon so power that not even they were willing to test it at full capacity. The Tsar Bomba was the largest nuclear bomb ever tested in the earth's atmosphere, having a mushroom cloud spanning over 40 miles (64km) and a yield of 57 million tons of TNT.