› added 8 years ago

316

TIL ancient tablets unearthed in Iraq in the 1800s have revealed that principles of Calculus were used by Babylonian astronomers to calculate the position of Jupiter 1400 years before Calculus was ‘invented’ by European mathematicians

Read more abc.net.au

via reddit.com

OLk4 TIL about the underwater signal Upsweep, a long train of narrow-band upsweeping sounds strong enough to be recorded throughout the entire Pacific. It’s origin is still unknown.
V4Z TIL that Spider-Man was Sexually Abused by his trusted friend Skip. (Full Comic)
R7KWw TIL: Arthur Venditti, an in-house designer for the Parker Brothers, was a fan of drag racing and recalled that the trucks that pushed the dragsters to the starting line had bumpers called “nerf bars”. Thus, leading to the famous NERF name.
6Jbm TIL: In the U.S. a king bed is bigger than a queen but in the U.K. a queen bed is bigger than a king!
9rGD TIL the world’s largest environmental organization makes millions of dollars off of an oil well on its land in Texas. The area is supposedly set aside for conservation, to protect one of the most critically endangered birds in America. The birds have now disappeared from the site.