› added 10 years ago

165

TIL a World of Warcraft player had 36 accounts on 11 computers simultaneously and raided by himself

Read more geekologie.com

via reddit.com

Eeoo TIL: A new ‘Bionic’ lens can give people eyesight up to three times better than 20/20.
mVWY TIL over 300 people died in a supermarket fire because the owners shut the doors so people wouldn’t leave without paying.
78blO TIL Space Shuttle Discovery has a unique “teardrop shape” on its windshield tiles due to an unusual and unknown error.
jN5aR TIL of Santino Ferrucci, a Formula 2 driver who forced his teammate off the track, deliberately drove into him and drove while holding his phone in one hand, all in a single Championship Sprint Race.
d806r TIL In a 1945 interview with The New York Times, Alexander Fleming, who won a Nobel Prize that year for his discovery of pencillin, warned that misuse of the drug could result in selection for resistant bacteria. True to this prediction, resistance began to emerge within 10 years.