› added 2 years ago

136

TIL MIT engineers made the first-ever plane with no moving parts by using electricity to ionize air (2018).

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

9ber TIL that Colonel Sanders was once a successful lawyer, but his legal career ended when he got into a courtroom brawl with his client.
b95G7 TIL During the May 1968 protests in France, the government came so close to collapsing that Charles de Gaulle fled the country while officials began burning documents, obtaining fake IDs, and planning their escapes. The prime minister was offered a gun with the advice, "You will need it."
a8g8b TIL that according to the regulations of Formula 1, each team is only allowed to use a maximum of 25 teraflops of double precision (64-bit) computing power for simulating the aerodynamics of their cars.
jrDX TIL when Londoner Henry Budd died in 1862, he left his whole estate to his two sons on one condition – that neither of them would grow a moustache
xwPk TIL that Ming the Clam, the world’s oldest animal at 507, was killed by researchers trying to tell how old it was