› added 5 years ago

125

TIL Gravity moves at the Speed of Light and is not Instantaneous. If the Sun were to disappear, we would continue our elliptical orbit for an additional 8 minutes and 20 seconds, the same time it would take us to stop seeing the light (according to General Relativity).

Read more math.ucr.edu

via reddit.com

ZEnv TIL eating a human body would provide about 81,500 calories
6Ljw TIL A shopkeeper in New Delhi teaches around 200 slum kids under a metro bridge for free. The school has no desks, chairs or blackboard just makeshift arrangements. Aptly named “Free School: Under the Bridge”
neReo TIL Samuel Clemens (AKA Mark Twain), who was born 186 years ago on November 30th, was born two months early and was not expected to live. He ended up being one of three children in his family who survived to adulthood while four other of his siblings passed away.
1Mnr TIL In 2006, a man in Scotland was jailed for two days for “revving his car in a racist manner”.
nemnG TIL Most scholars agree there has been a community of Jews in China since 960–1127