› added 11 months ago

39

TIL on January 5, 1941, 37-year-old pilot Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia, disappeared after bailing out of her plane over the River Thames, and is presumed dead. Her body was never found.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

ljx7 TIL that a coal power plant releases over 100 times more radiation into the environment than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy
v19OR TIL Tim Curry, as well as being an actor, is also an accomplished singer, releasing three studio albums since 1978.
roRy TIL while 1500 people died on the Titanic, it isn’t the worst maritime disaster in history. Almost 10 thousand people died when a German military transport ship was sunk by a Soviet submarine in 1945
D1JMv TIL that R2-D2 and C-3PO appear as hieroglyphics in the backround of scenes in "Raiders of the Lost Ark."
m1kgE TIL The Trojan Horse story likely never happened, and was instead a creative misunderstanding of an actual historical use of a siege engine.