› added 1 year ago

40

TIL in US music notation, the name Do doesn't refer to a specific note (C) but to the first note of the scale you're using. So any note can be called Do

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

WOwY TIL the most dangerous category of the Guinness Book of Records is the Banzai Skydive - a diver throws his parachute at 10,000 ft and attempts to secure it.
9ErM TIL in 2014, an 8-year-old boy named Tyler Doohan, saved 6 members of his family from his burning house before finally succumbing to the fire himself while trying to save the last victim, his disabled grandfather.
JY9JQ TIL: Pythagoras invented a Greedy Cup for his students to share the wine equally. If somebody was greedy, The cup was designed in a way that it would spill the wine all over the person.
WkNEd TIL of Bob Fletcher: he took care of the farms of three Japanese-American families as they were interned in World War 2. By maintaining their farms and paying their taxes and mortgages, he ensured the families didn't lose everything. He was finally shot at for supporting these families.
BK8W TIL of ‘mudita’, a word meaning the joy of another person’s joy, the opposite of envy.