› added 3 years ago

127

TIL the United States government invented "Loyalty Day" during the red scare as a countermeasure to May Day, and it is still recognized with an official proclamation every year by every president since its inception as a legal holiday in 1958.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

ADENd TIL that Marconi believed, late on in life, that no sound ever dies completely. He dreamt of building a device strong enough to pick up the actual words of Jesus at the 'Sermon on the Mount'.
xx87 TIL that it is possible to drown hours after you are out of the water. Liquid that gets into the lungs can act as an irritant, and the resulting bodily reaction can cause a person to drown in their own bodily fluids.
OGga TIL there’s a japanese company named Cyberdyne that invented a strength augmenting robotic exoskeleton. They named it HAL.
KOLpQ TIL that Alan Rickman (known for playing Severus Snape in Harry Potter) was in Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells II
xYJb TIL that Eli Whitney’s cotton gin is short for “cotton engine”.