› added 12 years ago

101

TIL that fantasy congress exist, where players draft members of congress and points were based off Legislative success.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

XLpk TIL: You burn 650 calories donating one pint of blood.
6MrY TIL that the “Vulcan nerve pinch” concept on Star Trek (1966) was invented by Leonard Nimoy when he and the series’ writers were trying to figure out how an unarmed Spock could overpower an adversary without resorting to violence.
WkjbA TIL that Chinese Checkers was invented in Germany
0waYM TIL of the Burr Conspiracy, where former VP Aaron Burr was charged with treason for trying to conquer parts of the Texas Territory and Mexico to make his own country.
VMx6m TIL that the oldest known Earth rock was discovered in 2019... embedded in a boulder brought back from the moon by Apollo 14. It is the first discovered meteorite from Earth.