› added 2 years ago

679

TIL Avicii didn't sing "Wake Me Up", Aloe Blacc is the actual singer

Read more youtube.com

via reddit.com

wV7o TIL there’s a website/app that calls customer service for you, navigates the phone tree, waits on hold, and rings your phone only when a rep is available. They have an expanding directory of over 3,000 companies. And it’s free.
MeXgb TIL the crowds of the pod races in Star Wars Episode I were half a million painted q-tips. With a blowing fan underneath the model stands, the q-tips would move around like a live crowd.
ADywx TIL In a blind tasting test, beer drinkers couldn't tell whether a beer was from a can or a bottle.
wowYP TIL that Machu Picchu is earthquake resistant. The Incans created an engineering technique called ‘ashlar masonry’, where rocks are cut to fit perfectly together without mortar. This allowed the stones to move in its place during an earthquake, before settling back in their original positions
mV4M TIL in 1964, a man photographing his daughter in a marsh captured what appears to be an astronaut standing behind her; he claims no one else was present in the shot other than the girl