› added 9 years ago

107

TIL that the “homeless man with a golden voice”, Ted Williams, is now homeless again and “owns nothing.”

Read more gawker.com

via reddit.com

nQnB TIL last year Kim Jong-un banned sarcasm in North Korea fearing people would only agree with him ‘ironically’.
4XOnR TIL blood appears green when at 50 feet or more underwater. This is because all of the red wavelengths in sunlight get absorbed in the first ten or twenty feet or so, but greens and blues get absorbed much more slowly.
LkWjQ TIL that a Japanese toy company designed a transforming toy of Jesus Christ on the cross, which turns into a mechanized battle robot
b9w6a TIL about Mary Ann Brown Patten, who took command of a merchant vessel in 1856 when the captain, her husband, became ill and the first mate was found to be sabotaging the voyage to win a bet he'd placed on a competitor. She defeated a mutiny attempt and brought the ship safely back to port.
MeZ0m TIL talking aloud can be a sign of high cognitive function and it is a practice of many high performance people (including professional athletes)