› added 1 year ago

496

TIL that 1 liter of water is the equivalent of 1kg

Read more epicwaterfilters.com

via reddit.com

R519 TIL in Japan, it is so common for people to die alone undiscovered for long periods, that they have a term for it, “Kodokushi”. “Their bodies lie in places undiscovered for long periods of time, and because of this, thick, dark stains shaped like a human body are left where their bodies once lay.”
dYwr TIL that the Greeks had proposed heliocentrism 2000 years before Copernicus: Aristarchus arranged the planets in order of distance from the Sun, concluding that it could not be in orbit around the Earth because a body that large could not orbit a body so small.
Z8kkv TIL that a study finds out “Bisexual men are real”
9Y1Jm TIL there's a demographer and sociologist named Elizabeth Wrigley-Field.
WkkaB The tiny bugs are marketed as a quick fix, but the body of evidence is miniscule.