› added 8 years ago

101

TIL: Shuttlecocks, the projectiles used in Badminton, are made from feathers taken from only the left wing of a bird; this ensures they rotate counter-clockwise.

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

loXGA TIL there is a subgenre of erotic literature that involves sexual encounters between humans and dinosaurs. Works include titles such as Taken by the T-Rex, Ravished by Triceratops and A Billionaire Dinosaur Forced Me Gay.
nxWG TIL that if you plant an apple seed, the resulting tree will not produce the same kinds of apples. In fact, they will taste significantly different and may be unsuitable for human consumption.
J47V TIL that Comcast sent bills and eventually collection notices to customers that lost their cable, phone, and internet equipment due to Hurricane Ike. The largest reported charge was $1000, but that bill was reduced to $931 to make up for the interruption of her phone service during the storm.
78PBM TIL 42 was the last natural number below 100 whose representation as a sum of three cubes was found (in 2019). The representation is: (-80538738812075974)^3 + 80435758145817515^3 + 12602123297335631^3
PwDV TIL: When Picasso was interrogated by an SS officer about his painting Guernica, “Did you do that?” Picasso replied, “No, you did.”