› added 4 months ago

18

TIL the Lights on Funeral Trains Come from a 3,000-Year-Old Ritual to Guide Souls; most popular was Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train

Read more historynet.com

via reddit.com

gQ4b TIL that planet earth is the only planet that is not named after any god but after the word “ertha” meaning ground or soil
X0E8E TIL Dan Frost, a German scientist, was able to make diamonds from peanut butter.
6EEbW At peak performance, Summit will perform 200 million billion operations a second and require as much energy as a decent-sized city (12,000 homes!).
jY4Q TIL that Pizza Hut once sued Papa Johns, claiming that the slogan “Better ingredients. Better Pizza.” is false advertising.
dDLZ TIL Hebrew was almost dead, until a guy locked his kid in their house, spoke only Hebrew to him, and invented a ton of the words.