› added 12 years ago

116

TIL that a moment is 90 seconds.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

1aLpd TIL the last person to receive a Civil War pension died in June 2020.
XokX TIL that gay sex is legal in Vatican City
AeNw TIL couples who spend more money on a wedding are more likely to divorce than couples who hold cheaper weddings
mxDPv TIL Glaucoma is almost always caused by too much pressure inside one or both eyes. People don’t typically experience symptoms until the optic nerve has already been damaged and glaucoma usually occurs later in life, but it can happen at any age
kOwb7 TIL of John Von Neumann, a mathematician polymat that invented computers (the architecture in every digital computer today), a precursor theory of DNA without having been a biologist, played a pivotal in creating the Atom bomb, and laid out the mathematical framework for quantum mechanics.