› added 5 years ago

157

TIL Disney Epcot regularly grows lemons the size of milk jugs

Read more disneyparks.disney.go.com

via reddit.com

pYPKp TIL, at age 39, that staplers have different settings to fold the staples either inwards or outwards
oR5kY TIL 120 starlink satellites fall out of orbit per month producing 30 kilograms of aluminum oxide each which eats away at the ozone layer and these oxides have increased 8 fold in the atmosphere since 2016
wLpl8 TIL Back in 2000, James Cameron discussed filming at International Space Station with Tom Cruise. When Cameron asked "...somebody’s gotta train us as engineers.’ Tom Cruise said, ‘No problem, I’ll train as an engineer.’
6EwWY TIL that the first patent for a fax machine was awarded in 1843, before even the invention of the telephone, and the first PHOTOGRAPHIC fax machine was invented in 1880, only four years after Alexander Graham Bell received his first telephone patent.
Ypnlv TIL The bottlenose dolphin sleeps by shutting down half its brain along with the opposite eye. The other half remains awake at a low level of alertness to watch for predators and to surface to breath. After about two hours it reverses the process so the other half can rest.