› added 10 years ago

203

TIL that a spanish athlete added 20 metres to the javelin throw world record in 1956 using a style that was later banned due to the danger it posed to the public.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

woPNE TIL that Times New Roman was commissioned by a British newspaper called The Times.
6ERvm TIL that China has a law that enforces adult children to visit and care for their elderly parents.
rX4M TIL There have been 18 incidences of theft or loss of highly enriched uranium and plutonium confirmed by the International Atomic Energy Agency in the last 12 years.
6EOgX TIL that, contrary to expectations, objects with greater drag generate less heat when entering the atmosphere. This is because a pocket of air forms in front of the object. After this was discovered in 1951, vehicles such as the Apollo capsule were designed to enter the atmosphere blunt-end first.
X0nKX TIL Laryy Lessig wrote a book about copyright and how Disney orchestrated lengthening copyright over 90 times in a century and effectively stealing you rights for published works.