› added 4 months ago

27

TIL that daily fantasy sports (DFS) are not legal in Nevada while Casinos are legal

Read more npr.org

via reddit.com

epE85 TIL about Willie Jones, who survived the highest human fever at 46.5 °C or 115.7 °F.
6dx8 TIL that an orangutan named Fu Manchu repeatedly escaped from his cage at the zoo using a key he had fashioned from a piece of wire. Every time his zookeepers inspected him, he hid the key in his mouth.
Brgke TIL when a rookie hits his first home run in Major League Baseball, it's tradition for his teammates to ignore him and give him the silent treatment instead of congratulating him.
0dROp TIL The sign commemorating Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American boy who was killed in 1955 by two white men in Mississippi, had to be replaced with a bulletproof one because it had been repeatedly vandalized—first stolen, then shot at, then shot at again leaving it riddled with bullet holes
ANbPd TIL the concept and name for the atom bomb was first conceived of by H. G. Wells in the 1914 novel The World Set Free. The story may have influenced the development of the real life weapons, as physicist Leo Szilard had read the novel before conceiving of the neutron chain reaction.