› added 1 year ago

142

Today I learned Zambia, I country in Southern Africa tried to go to Mars in an oil drum

Read more youtu.be

via reddit.com

6jOJ TIL That Churchill had Silent Typewriters in his Bunker Because he Insisted on a ‘Quiet Working Environment’
GYKPG TIL about Frisland, a "phantom/imaginary" island off the coast of Greenland which, despite being nonexistent, appeared on virtually all of the maps of the North Atlantic from the 1560s through the 1660s.
MeyMa TIL: When a friend wrote "KURT SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT" on a wall, Kurt Cobain assumed it was an anti-establishment slogan and wrote a hit song. Months later he found out his friend had been making fun of him. Kurt's girlfriend wore Teen Spirit, deodorant marketed to teenage girls.
R7vr7 TIL about Almon Brown Strowger. Strowger's undertaking business was losing clients to a competitor whose telephone-operator wife was redirecting everyone who called for Strowger. Motivated to remove the intermediary operator, he invented the first automatic telephone exchange in 1889.
5VV5n TIL Spanish conquistadors went exploring all the way up to Kansas in the 1500s