› added 10 years ago

109

TIL that Hawaiian Water-Powered Jet Packs Pose a Threat to Fishes and Coral Reef

Read more universityherald.com

via reddit.com

yVd8M TIL that in 1934 a board game called Toward Soviet America was the opposite of Monopoly. The goal was to get rid of the rich and powerful, end oppression, and seize the means of production. The game did not catch on.
69y4J TIL that the University of Iowa’s mascot, the Hawkeye, is inspired by the character Hawkeye from James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans. The name also pays tribute to Chief Black Hawk, a prominent Native American leader who spent his final years in Iowa and is buried there.
A11o TIL “Run” is the word with the most different meanings. The verb-form alone has no fewer than 645 meanings and Peter Gilliver worked for more than nine months to work out all of them.
dNjr TIL, Frodo had the ring for 17 years before going on his quest instead of the handful of days the movie shows.
m5Vp TIL that wheelchair athletes with spinal injuries will sometimes intentionally injure themselves on the lower body (e.g. break a toe), causing their bodies to respond by raising blood pressure and enhaincing their performance. This practice has been banned as cheating.