› added 9 months ago

32

TIL in 2017, Harvard Rescinded Acceptance Offers to over 10 Students After Sharing Memes in a Private Facebook Group | The Harvard Crimson

Read more thecrimson.com

via reddit.com

M7A6V TIL The crew of Apollo 13 used a 5-inch, metal slide rule, model "N600-ES" made by Pickett as a back up on-board computer. It was a model that was popular among engineers, scientists and students at the time
6E1dQ TIL In the 1950s, Catholic Priest Gerald Fitzgerald proposed banishing all sexually predatory priests to a remote island for life
16nx8 TIL with its 26th season, south park passed Arthur to become the second longest running animated series of all time
ADjag TIL that Medieval mapmakers supposedly inscribed the phrase “Here Be Dragons” on maps showing unknown regions of the world. Unfortunately, however, it appears that, apart from an inscription on a single, 16th-century globe, this claim is unfounded.
GRkj TIL that there is no such thing as standing in line in Chinese culture. Chinese simply push and jostle to the front, to the chagrin of non-Chinese.