› added 12 years ago

147

TIL Guiness Draft has fewer calories than Orange Juice.

Read more askmcom

via reddit.com

dDn6Z TIL that it's unclear from where Nation of Islam founder Wallace Fard Muhammad originated. While the NOI holds that Fard was Arabic, some evidence indicates he was south Asian, and once went by Wallie Dodd Ford. Fard appeared in Detroit in 1930 and disappeared without a trace in 1934
m8NE TIL that Mozart was obsessed with poop, a fact widely acknowledged by scholars.
p8nLb TIL When Michael Collins remained in the lunar module, he was in Orbit on the "other" side of the moon. He was cut off from all radio contact, the most alone any human has ever been.
WK7Y TIL there is a “zip bomb” called 42.zip that is only 42 kilobytes when zipped, but is 4.5 Petabytes uncompressed.
vGL4 TIL quicksand scenes appeared in 3% of all movies in the 1960s, but claims of REAL human deaths by quicksand are nonexistant or poorly supported. (more in comments)