› added 1 year ago

59

TIL IBM holds the record for most annual US patents generated by a business for 29 consecutive years

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

KOMea TIL during Prohibition, federal agents Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith disguised themselves as grave-diggers, football players, Russian women, rabbis, judges, and plumbers (among many others). Together, they seized more than 5 million bottles of illicit booze and made 4,932 arrests.
x6egk TIL Cataract Surgery was done as early as the 5th century BCE using “couching” and evolved to use a syringe in the 11th century in the medieval Islamic world
Oogga TIL A Mauser C96 was modified to form Han Solo's prop blaster pistol for the Star Wars films. Reproductions of the blaster became so popular in the cosplay community that gun collectors became aware that fans were buying and altering increasingly rare original Mausers.
p8exQ TIL If the Planck length is the smallest possible thing, and the observable universe is the largest possible thing, then an object which would roughly sit in the middle of these two sizes would strangely be.... an adult human body.
KY914 TIL: Rock band Limp Bizkit played on the World Trade Center and received a Thank You letter from the WTC on Sept 10, 2001.