› added 12 years ago

91

TIL That the smell of rain is caused by a bacteria

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

m15Zp TIL there is a very small (9-inch-tall) aluminum pyramid on the very top of the Washington Monument, because at the time it was completed, aluminum was considered more precious than gold or silver
P1EOw TIL that the Anchorage International airport in Alaska is 9.5 hours flight time to 90% of the industrial world and is the 5th busiest cargo airport in the world.
edAk TIL The Museum of Endangered Sounds exists to allow streaming of once popular technological sounds. ie. the dial-up tone, ICQ chat tone, Windows 95 startup
LQNNm TIL cat fur allergy is not actually for fur bot for proteins in saliva on it.
MevXa TIL that every year, a regatta is held in Alice Springs. Due to the lack of water in Central Australia, contestants have to carry bottomless "boats" trough a dried-out river. When the river did carry water in 1993, the regatta became "the only regatta ever cancelled because of wet weather".