› added 5 years ago

209

TIL 7-time Tetris World Champion Jonas Neubauer is married to the reigning Dr. Mario World Champion, Heather Ito

Read more youtu.be

via reddit.com

b6gG0 TIL Technically, you are never really "touching" anything because almost everything repel each other. When you are sitting in a chair, you are actually hovering above it at an unbelievably small distance.
0dXPp TIL Venus fly traps will grow their own flower stalks long in order to save the pollinator bugs from being trapped and eaten
bkBQ TIL there is a dialect of German only spoken in Texas.
Y7myx TIL Cao Xueqin is considered to be China's greatest novelist, but little is known of his life. He spent ten years writing "A Dream in Red Mansions" from 1740 to 1750 but the last chapters were written by a different author. The novel was not published until 1791, nearly 30 years after Cao's death
8e1v8 TIL: Laura Callahan was the CIO of the Department of Labor and then Homeland Security with bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees purchased at a diploma mill. Coworkers complained she used strange technical jargon and belittled them. She was caught, but was not charged with a crime.