› added 1 year ago

63

TIL: New Zealand's Scott Base in Antarctica is only 3 kms (1.9 miles) from the USA's McMurdo Station. They are connected by road.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

QNZke TIL of Hannie Schaft, a Dutch resistance fighter known as "the girl with the red hair" during WWII. She committed assassinations and sabotage but refused to kidnap a Nazi official's children. During her execution, she was shot and injured, challenging her killers by saying, "I shoot better."
xVMY7 TIL that the 0.56% unpure part of Ivory soap consisted of uncombined alkali, carbonates and mineral matter. The rest is all fatty acids and combined alkali.
VM1K0 TIL the News Presenters at BBC News have a specific set of clothes on standby just in case they need to announce the death of the Queen
nENo TIL that EA had to replace their cover athlete for ‘NHL 2004’ not once, but twice as their original choice was found to have assaulted a cop and their other choice killed his teammate in a car accident.
P5DJ TIL NASA contemplated sending giant beach ball-like rovers to Mars that would be propelled by wind