› added 11 years ago

209

TIL all mammals have roughly the same number of heartbeats independent of lifespan, about 1 billion.

Read more ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

via reddit.com

GYam7 TIL there is a Russian video games news show "Ot vinta" that have started airing in 1995 and ran till 1998. They have continued making episodes through the years with the same hosts and are still going. The same two guys in Russia reviewed the first DOOM in 1995 and DOOM Eternal in 2020.
XEpVj TIL After 3 years at Harvard, Gabe Newell dropped out to join Microsoft in 1983. He later said: "I learned more in 3 months at Microsoft than in my entire time at Harvard"
wLD5M TIL about Sidney Franklin, a gay Jewish man from Brooklyn who became the first American matador in Spain, befriended and was admired by Hemingway, and was known publicly as “El Yanki” or “El Torero de la Torá”
b6LMa TIL that a man in India died of rabies after a possible 25-year incubation period!
0wEZL TIL that the guillotine had numerous nicknames. Some of these nicknames include "The National Razor", "Charlot's Rocking Chair," and "The Goncourt Prize for Murderers".