› added 1 year ago

137

TIL Triceps make up 70% of an arm’s total mass!

Read more utdailybeacon.com

via reddit.com

ooO8 TIL that in China TV adverts can only be shown at the end of a 45min program instead of during
1lG7 TIL that 2 days before Christmas 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson paid a visit to Pope Paul VI where they exchanged unique gifts. While LBJ received a stunning 15th century painting from Pope Paul VI, the pope himself received a foot high, bronze bust of Johnson’s head.
YkVx TIL that, in October 2012, Boy Scouts of America was forced to release 20,000 pages of documentation on 1,200 cases of child sex abuse. They had allegedly been helping to cover up about 1/3 of those cases.
L9Pm TIL Paul Van Riper gained notoriety after the Millennium Challenge 2002 wargame where he easily sank a whole US carrier battle group in the simulation with an inferior Middle-Eastern “red” team in the first two days.
Brr5L At 7:52 A.M., May 20, 1927, Charles Lindbergh began his famous flight across the Atlantic. Here’s the Great Circle Chart he used to plan the flight.