› added 7 years ago

221

TIL that Suzanne Vega is considered the “Mother of the MP3” because her song “Tom’s Diner” was used to test the algorithm for the mp3: if it could be compressed without losing the warmth in her voice than it would work on anything

Read more opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com

via ift.tt

DQPjV TIL Japan Airlines has a museum in their training facility that displays parts of the wreckage from the deadliest single-aircraft accident in aviation history to help educate future employees with no memory of the JL(JAL)123 crash of the importance of flight safety.
Nm4b TIL after an Indian king was insulted for his ethnicity by an employee while visiting a Rolls-Royce showroom in London he ordered that 6 luxury cars be bought and sent back to India to be used as garbage collectors throughout the city, damaging Rolls-Royce’s reputation and profits.
X476 TIL that lethal injections in China are administered in mobile execution vans
14y4 TIL in a study involving medical students at UVA half of them believed half racist myths like black people feeling less pain and aging slower
WkL6Y TIL that Keanu Reeves came to the aid of Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer when she first moved to LA and was stranded on the side of the road