› added 5 years ago

258

TIL about the “Seneca Drums,” a mysterious booming sound that comes from Seneca Lake in upstate NY.

Read more fingerlakes.com

via reddit.com

e0lQk TIL Sarah Jessica Parker, who played a witch convicted in the Salem witch trials in the Disney movie “Hocus Pocus”, later discovered that one of her ancestors was a real woman accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
0wldL TIL there is a course from MIT called the “Missing Semester" that goes through the Shell, Vim, Git, data wrangling, etc — all the stuff that CS students are just ‘supposed to know’ but aren’t usually formally taught in a classroom
QJQNM TIL the 99 cent pricing first became popular in the nineteenth century, shortly after the invention of the cash register. The pricing ensured that the cashier was forced to ring-in the transaction to create a record of it and return change to reduce the risk of the cashier stealing from the store.
jNJ4N TIL The Blues Brothers Band [Aykroyd, Belushi, et al] had a number #1 album which went double platinum and they opened for the Grateful Dead BEFORE the film was made. That album has now sold more than 3.5 million copies and is among the highest-selling blues albums of all time.
6EWKl TIL about the burial of "Shanidar 1," a Neanderthal who lived approximately 45,000 to 35,000 years ago. Despite several injuries and disabilities from early in his life that would have made it impossible to survive on his own, he lived to a relatively old age (40 to 50) with the help of others.