› added 9 years ago

223

TIL there was a mid 90’s X-men made for TV movie.

Read more m.wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

NX0oe TIL saturation divers have to live weeks in a pressurized environment underwater.
e0rKL TIL that in the 1910s, an encyclopedia company gave away tracts of land in Huntington Beach, California, with every $126 encyclopedia set purchased. Today, the median home price in the area is close to a million dollars.
VBG5Q TIL That the size of Mars is not even double the size of our Moon. Mars has a diameter of 6787km while the moon is 3476km
nWe1o TIL the use of table forks was once considered unmanly and was controversial and the Catholic Church for being an "excessive delicacy".
nmd9 TIL The ceremony of the keys at the Tower of London has gone on almost uninterrupted for 700 years. It was late once during WWII due to a number of bombs hitting the guard room, knocking the guards and Yeoman warder over. The officer in charge personally wrote a letter to the king to apologise.