› added 12 years ago

233

TIL A Greek taxi driver has the highest recorded mileage to date (2.9 million miles) on a Mercedes. He donated his car to the museum, and was gifted a new car.

Read more worldcarfans.com

via reddit.com

MerRb TIL That the claim about Fleming not wanting to patent penicillin so that the diffusion could spread faster, is false. He didn't have any means to bring it into mass production; besides, he didn't consider himself the inventor, attributing penicillin to nature.
p8KR8 TIL serial killer Carroll Cole, responsible for the deaths of at least 15 women, killed his first victim at just 8 years of age, drowning a classmate in a lake. The death was thought to have been an accident until he confessed in an autobiography he wrote in prison.
D6lp TIL Lake Vostok, the 16th largest lake in the world, was only confirmed to exist in 1993. It’s located in Antarctica beneath a 4km ice sheet. The average water temperature is around −3 °C; it remains liquid below freezing point because of high pressure from the weight of the ice above it
E1LMV TIL that “Caligula” was a nickname given to Gaius Caesar as a toddler by his father’s soldiers because he had a little soldier’s outfit, including tiny, hobnailed boots (caligae) such as the infantry wore.
gn6y TIL that there is a chemical signal in female tears that reduces testosterone and sexual urges in men.