› added 7 years ago

728

TIL That in 2007, renown violinist Joshua Bell once played 6 Bach pieces at a metro station in DC. He played some of the hardest songs ever on a $3,500,000 violin for 45 minutes, and made $32 with 6 people watching. He frequently sells out shows for $100 a piece. There was no applause.

Read more nativevillage.org

via ift.tt

0w1EL TIL That people who engaged in deconstructive meditation practices (vipassana/insight meditation) were 65% more likely to report unpleasant meditation-related experiences when compared to non-deconstructive practices.
7r7nZ TIL about LIDAR, similar to SONAR and RADAR, this technology bounces light off of the Earth to map features of the land. Even peering through dense forest, it's changing how all sorts of fields of study see the land's topography.
RaNj TIL William Shakespeare may have helped translate part of the King James Bible.
5VNnR TIL the professionally accepted term for what chiropractors practice is not chiropracty, but chiropractic.
QJmWa TIL John Swartzwelder's reclusive life and prolific writing for The Simpsons made fans theorize that he was a pseudonym for episodes that had multiple writers. Swartzwelder is credited with writing 59 episodes, more than any other individual.