› added 7 years ago

727

TIL In Houston, Texas, a 19-year-old man named Rashaad died attempting to play Russian roulette with a semi-automatic pistol instead of a revolver.

Read more telegraph.co.uk

via ift.tt

gwoA TIL MIT engineers created a wearable vest that hooks to and e-book and can change the lighting, sound, temperature, chest tightness, and heart of the reader so they can experience what the character in the book is feeling.
Z9jQ TIL People knew that the Earth was round in Columbus’ times. They just wouldn’t give him a charter for a voyage because they knew that Asia was much further away than he thought.
M7X67 TIL using ultrasound technology, scientists can actually use whale songs to map out the ocean floor.
d878d TIL about the Battle of Camaron, where 64 French Foreign Legionnaires resisted to 3,000 mexican soldiers for a whole day long. The 3 last legion survivors, heavily wounded, refused to continue the fight at their own terms.
lAvB TIL The Nazis built a 4.5km long beach resort complex on a German Island, and none of its 10'000 rooms had been used for more than 70 years.