› added 7 years ago

169

TIL the inventor the saxophone almost died several times as a child, including falling into a cast iron frying pan and drinking vitriolozed water.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

GNQJ TIL: Bill Gates is giving away all his money and leaving only 10m each to his 3 children so “they can make their own way.”
vPE58 TIL about the Tyndall effect, which is light scattering by particles in a colloid such as a very fine suspension.
x6Pk1 TIL that NASA engineers designed a make up kit because they thought female astronauts would want make up in space
pEdQ TIL the US-Canada trade relationship is the largest in the world, surpassing even US-China trade. The amount of goods crossing the Windsor-Detroit bridge alone is larger than annual US-Japan trade.
yDya TIL that Merry-Go-Rounds go clockwise while Carousels go counterclockwise.