› added 10 years ago

273

TIL there is a building in Tokyo built in 1972, whose rooms consist of tiny 90 square foot capsule apartments that can be individually replaced like lego pieces.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

Oo6lY TIL of Karl Schwarzschild who, in the same year Einstein introduced general relativity, provided the first exact mathematical solution to general relativity whilst on the front lines of World War I
ANZEw TIL a New Jersey Councilman apparently urinated on a crowd of people in 2008
W7goY TIL there is a Girl Scout Badge called "The Wonders of Polymer" badge supported by the Society of Plastics Engineers. The provided video asset claims, "Some people think they're doing a good thing by advocating for a plastics free world, but that's not really possible."
bErE TIL of British woman Joyce Carol Vincent, who died alone in her bedsit in 2003 but wasn’t discovered until 2006. She was found with the television still on and surrounded with wrapped Christmas presents.
8LdP TIL a car dealership in MO gave away a voucher for a free AK-47 with each truck purchase during a sale