› added 1 year ago

234

TIL that British Lawyers and Judges still regularly wear wigs in court.

Read more legaljobs.io

via reddit.com

DZvv TIL the man who runs Khan Academy has three degrees from MIT as well as an MBA from Harvard
ZpnD TIL in 1836, condoms were made from vulcanized rubber. They were custom fitted by a doctor, and were designed to be reusable. It wasn’t until 1919 that condoms began to be manufactured from liquid latex.
woZP7 TIL that the Niesen Stairway (service stairway for Niesenbahn funicular) is the longest staircase in the world with 11,674 steps. It is located on Mt. Niesen in the Bernese Oberland region of the Swiss Alps.
M0bA TIL: There’s such thing as an underwater Ice Tornado that kills everything it touches.
e0pO5 Sea creatures in Mariana Trench (the deepest place on Earth) have been found with man-made fibres in their stomachs for the first time, showing that no part of the world’s seas are now untouched by human rubbish.