› added 4 years ago

300

TIL that "TMZ" stands for the Thirty Mile Zone around Los Angeles within which film crews don't get paid overnight expenses

Read more lamag.com

via reddit.com

M7bBa TIL that volcanic eruptions can cool the Earth's climate. When a volcano erupts, it releases sulfur dioxide, which converts to sulfuric acid in the atmosphere and forms fine sulfate aerosols. These aerosols reflect sunlight back into space, leading to temporary global cooling.
69Dvw TIL that Pocahontas's real name was Matoax. Her tribe carefully concealed from the English her real name, changing it to Pocahontas, "out of a superstitious fear, lest they, by the knowledge of her true name, should be enabled to do her some hurt"
gMOQ7 TIL Antipopes used to exist. Anyone who makes a significantly accepted competing claim to be the Pope is considered to be the Antipope. The last time this happened was in 1439.
l7QNV TIL that in 1900 the American Army in cuba was doing test to prove that Yellow Fever was passed by Mosquitoes via using them to infect willing test subjects until the experiements ended with the Death of Clara Maass, the only American and only woman test subject.
KOZ76 TIL in 2008 a man at a ski resort in Italy stole a rubber padding used on a barrier to stop people at the bottom of a sledding hill. He used the padding to sled down the hill, hitt ing the barrier that he stole the from and died.