› added 7 years ago

71

TIL Henery Shrapnel in 1784 invented a hollow cannon ball that would be filled with shot and gun powder,and exploded over the enemies

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

XQdD TIL that wasp stings are alkaline but bee stings are acidic
ne1Kb TIL FOIA requests reveal that the US Government has had a hand in the production of thousands of hours of entertainment in the last few decades including many feature films such as those in the Marvel franchise. They have insisted on edits to scripts which portray the government in a negative light.
DRAj TIL Brian May, the guitarist from queen, has a PhD in astrophysics and has co-authored 3 research papers
QNKg9 TIL there's no town Sweet Home, Alabama, but there is a Sweet Home, Oregon
87xG TIL Punxsutawney Phil is so bad at predicting the weather, we would have more accurate predictions with a coin flip.