› added 12 years ago

195

TIL Michael Jordan was not cut from his high school basketball team, instead he was placed on JV due to his coach’s “No sophomores on Varsity” rule.

Read more cbssports.com

via reddit.com

LQkXQ TIL that a 14 year old High Schooler debunked a college professors claim that “Irish Need Not Apply” job postings did not exist in the US.
l7YNA TIL about Low-Background Steel, which is any steel made before the first nuclear explosion. It is used for very sensitive equipment like Geiger counter
9bM TIL Intel spilled 1.4 tons of carbon tetrachloride in Rio Rancho, New Mexico in 2003. Deceased dogs in the area were found to have high levels of toluene, hexane, ethylbenzene, and xylene isomers in their lungs. Intel later lied and reported no release of carbon tetrachloride for all of 2003.
YbGZ TIL: A scientific study demonstrated that Duct Tape “… failed reliably and often quite catastrophically,” at sealing ducts.
ZpENo TIL: A conquest dynasty in the history of China refers to a Chinese dynasty established by non-Han ethnicities which ruled parts or all of China proper, the traditional heartland of the Han people, and whose rulers may or may not have fully assimilated into the dominant Han culture.