› added 12 years ago

147

TIL Alexander the Great was embalmed in honey.

Read more beelore.com

via reddit.com

wL9mM TIL The author of the novel "Brave New World", Aldous Huxley, create another novel (Island) which reversed the cultures and roles of the civilized and savages.
Wkx94 TIL that the phrase ''Pushing The Envelope'' is not about the container for letters- but is related to a mathematical graph of aerodynamic performance on which the envelope is the boundary line representing an aircraft's capabilities.
6yDw TIL in the UK, the most common cause of death for men under 50 is suicide.
l7aLN TIL the character in the 1986 TV special Garfield in Paradise that could translate for everyone was named Pigeon.
0A4N TIL that steel from the sunk Imperial German Navy is used extensively in space ship equipment, as steel produced after 1945 is contaminated by nuclear pollution.