› added 9 years ago

280

TIL there is a real life Professor Snape who teaches chemistry at the University of Nottingham

Read more nottingham.ac.uk

via reddit.com

4X5bN TIL that many schools in the US still use the "cueing" method to teach students how to read, despite research showing that it's not effective. Cueing strategies include looking at the picture for context and trying to guess what word might make sense when you come to an unknown word.
kRBB TIL that in order to prevent everything from being named after mathematician Leonhard Euler, discoveries are sometimes named after the first person AFTER Euler to have discovered them.
VQRp TIL Yuichi Nishimura the controversal ref from Croatia vs. Brazil once red carded the wrong Chinese player due to mistaken identity
DQxdY TIL that Frank Prentice a survivor of the Titanic, stated that the scent of the iceberg was detectable before the collision occurred.
KYVya TIL in the American Civil War, the Union Army used 175,000 lb (80,000 kg) of opium tincture and powder and about 500,000 opium pills