› added 4 years ago

146

TIL the USA has 11 aircraft carriers in operation, the rest of the world has the same number as a combined total

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

Lx1V TIL WWW is the longest possible three letter acronym to pronounce, ordinarily using three times as many syllables than the words it is abbreviating
JYr8v TIL about an engineering principle called the "Bathtub Curve". It suggests all products have 3 phases of reliability: An early high failure rate that decreases as defects are removed, a period showing intrinsic (random) failure rate, and then an increase in failures as wearout occurs.
rwmW TIL The donkey was chosen as the Democratic Party symbol when Andrew Jackson’s opponents called him a Jackass in 1832.
xVEdk TIL that when George Washington died, Napoleon Bonaparte of France gave a personal eulogy and ordered a ten day mourning period for France.
ybBX TIL Kim Jong-Il wasn’t born in North Korea, but in the Soviet Union.