› added 1 week ago

TIL that engineers proved that leaving the air conditioning on when you’re not home actually can save energy over setting your thermostat up high and making the A/C work hard when you get home after work

Read more theconversation.com

via reddit.com

9w4DM TIL ~ About Unit 100 who's main purpose was to research diseases from animals during WW2
pYRVb TIL James Buchanan is the only American president who was never married.
4XeZa TIL that astronomer Tycho Brahe got into a drunken duel with his cousin over who was the better mathematician, and as a result of the duel had to wear a prosthetic nose.
JYgB1 TIL A doctor saved the life of a premature baby (Chris Trokey). After 30 years Chris, who was a paramedic, was the first responder to save a person from a burning vehicle, visited the hospital and realized that the man he had helped was the man who had given him the gift of life 30 years earlier.
p8nOA TIL I learned of the Na people, a matrilineal society where women are in charge and "walking marriages" are practiced: women are free to initiate sexual relationships with one or more men, and any children born from these unions are cared for by the woman's brothers.