› added 8 months ago

50

TIL , as a congressman, future 20th President James A. Garfield contributed to the Pythagorean Theorem by providing additional proof using a trapezoid.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

DQ1kJ TIL humans only perceive 0.0035% of the electromagnetic spectrum w our eyes. This 0.0035% is known as visible light and comprises everything the human eye alone can detect in the universe.
yAev TIL: That Gas Prices in Venezuela haven’t changed since 1996 at $0.015 per Liter
EgglW TIL that Scotts Miracle-Gro Company knowingly sold poisoned bird seed for over 2 years. They sold 70+ million bags of bird seed with a pesticide toxic to birds to help with insect control during storage. Scotts paid a fine of $4 million and give an additional $500,000 donation to wildlife study.
lo6Za TIL longtime Nintendo president and owner Heroshi Yamauchi also owned the Seattle Mariners baseball team for over 20 years but never went to a game.
YpP4d TIL before the Mayflower, Squanto was kidnapped, sold into slavery in Spain, and escaped back to North America, only to find his entire tribe wiped out from disease. The site he later helped the Pilgrams settle at was the summer village of his tribe, Plymoth Rock.