› added 1 year ago

93

TIL that there is a music genre called Retrowave, which combines nostalgic synth and modern beats to imitate music from the 80s (but real 80s sounds different)

Read more sptfy.com

via reddit.com

9Y0YD TIL there is a hotel in Auckland next to a giant bungee tower, and the hotel doesn't inform the guests that screaming people will be plummeting past their hotel room windows.
lwQ7 TIL the phrase “Let them eat cake” has no record of being said by Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution. It was used in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s autobiography, which was written when Antoinette was 9 years old.
QAja TIL - People who identify as porn addicts don’t actually watch more porn than other people – they just feel worse about it.
R5Lg6 Today I learned the Seikan Tunnel connecting the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido is the world’s longest undersea tunnel with a total length of 53.8k/33.5mi and is only utilized for rail service.
wLW7E TIL about Zachary Sabin, an 11-year-old child who died from water intoxication after drinking 4 bottles of water (each 0.7l) over 4 hours without eating anything. This happened after his parents forced him to drink water because his urine was dark.