› added 9 years ago

351

TIL the US education system is ranked 14th best in the world. Just behind Russia.

Read more thelearningcurve.pearson.com

via reddit.com

v1WMD TIL unlike in the movie Die Hard, the escape hatch on an elevator can't be opened from the inside; by law, it's bolted shut from the outside. It’s there so that emergency personnel can get in, not so passengers can get out. If an elevator is in trouble, the safest place to be is inside the elevator.
oR968 TIL age group 45 to 54 years old accounts for 80% of all U.S. suicides.
ZpgWp TIL that when The Beatles broke up in 1970, they were all still in their late twenties! John Lennon and Ringo Starr were both 29, while Paul McCartney and George Harrison were just 27.
jNGQR TIL Men have nipples because we are all female until the Y chromosome kicks in.
W7YQ8 TIL that when a Concorde crashed in 2000, it came within 30 feet of hitting a plane carrying the French president