› added 5 years ago

89

TIL that Senator Jake Garn, who flew in the Space Shuttle in 1985, experienced the worst case of space sickness on record. Because of this, NASA jokingly uses a "Garn Scale" to measure reactions to space sickness, where "1.0 Garn" is the worst.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

w9rP TIL that in Season 8 Episode 2 of ‘The Fairly OddParents’, Timmy Turner is on fairy trial for keeping his first ever wish a secret. It’s revealed that the wish was for everyone to stop aging so he could have his fairies forever. When asked how long ago the wish was made, he guesses around 50 years.
gr1v9 TIL Silicon & Synapse, Inc was founded on February 8, 1991, but changed their name to Chaos Studios, Inc. in 1993 because of confusion with breast implants. The company changed the name again in 1994 because of Chaos Technologies and they became Blizzard Entertainment because it passed a name check.
P5Vg TIL in 1940, 2 Australian air force planes collided and locked together midair during a training exercise yet pilot L. Fuller landed the entangled planes after traveling 5 miles, after all other crews ejected. Fuller was commemorated & promoted, but died in 1944 when his bicycle collided with a bus.
nEn7 TIL The Unabomber agreed to stop planting bombs, if his Manifesto was published in a major newspaper. When Penthouse agreed to publish it, he changed his terms such that he would be allowed to plant one more bomb, because he thought so little of the magazine.
0wpLy TIL that every tourist to the Kingdom of Bhutan must pay a daily fee of USD$250. This tax is to discourage large tour groups of "low-quality high impact tourists" that may damage Bhutan's fragile and unspoiled environment.