› added 9 years ago

113

TIL When a coal mine catches fire, it burns for decades or even centuries. There are thousands of these fires across the world at any given moment.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

9wM66 TIL the fastest man made object is the Parker solar probe, which's already reached 394,736 mph, and is expected to reach 430,000 mph in 2024
AOYB TIL Saddam Hussein had a Quran written using his blood. It is considered sinful to write out the Quran in blood, but it is also forbidden to defile or deface it. One Iraqi was quoted as saying “"It is forbidden to write the Qur'an in blood, but how could we destroy the holy book from God?”
P1kOe TIL the first Ciabatta bread was made in 1982
x6AKb TIL that Napoleon's parents fought against the French conquest of Corsica. Napoleon was born three months after the conquest was successful, thus a French citizen and eventually its emperor.
jAwn TIL: Mexico City is sinking as much as 15 inches a year!