› added 4 years ago

58

TIL That Cannabis and Frankincense were discovered at the "holy of holies" of a shrine at Tel Arad in the Beer-sheba Valley, Israel.

Read more newsroom.taylorandfrancisgroup.com

via reddit.com

J4Wj TIL: That in 1962, a programmer omitted a single hyphen in the code for the Mariner I rocket, causing it to explode shortly after take off. This typo cost NASA the equivalent of $630 million dollars today.
LAxZ TIL: Firefighters would hide in Ground Zero rubble so that dogs could find “survivors”. Constantly finding bodies was leading to high stress in the dogs as they thought they were failing.
eBR6 TIL calling someone a patriot was an insult until the American Revolution
PbEE TIL the first man to swim the length of Great Britain grew a beard to stop jellyfish stinging his face
XEydj TIL there is a Saint Lucifer, a Christian Bishop who lived in the 4th century. There is a church dedicated to him in Sardinia.