› added 12 years ago

97

TIL In a song in 2004, Cookie Monster revealed that, before he ate his first cookie, he believes his name was Sid

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

eZxL TIL of an actor named Del Close who died in 1999. In his will he bequeathed his skull to a local theatre so he could still play the part of Yorick, a dead court jester, in productions of Hamlet. However, no one wanted to remove his head after death, robbing him of one of his final wishes.
Z8YDQ TIL in 1958 A chemical operator at Los Alamos was killed after plutonium in a mixing tank went supercritical, exposing him to over 30Gy of hard radiation. After 24 hours his bone marrow contained no red blood cells
gxWy TIL The number of Americans who believed homosexuality is a sin actually went up between 2013-2014 (45%-50%)
N78N1 TIL that the Apollo Guidance Computer, used in the moon landings, had 64 Kilobytes of memory and a .043 Megahertz processor. The iPhone 11 has 4 Gigabytes of memory and a 2.5 Gigahertz processor, more than 58,000 times as powerful.
W7Xgd TIL the organization of the periodic table of elements was created by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev after having a dream where, in his dream, the elements arranged themselves by their atomic weights and electron properties.