› added 9 years ago

593

TIL that Denver Int'l Airport (at 53 sq miles) is larger than Manhattan, San Francisco & Miami and is the 2nd largest airport in the world.

Read more thedenverchannel.com

via reddit.com

lJl5 TIL there was once a human mannequin so convincingly still that he was stabbed by someone in an attempt to prove he was actually a dummy.
v1Nd8 TIL that Matthew Perry and Jennifer Aniston made a video guide for Microsoft about how to use Windows 95
bNOa TIL Alfred Hitchcock shot no more footage than absolutely necessary, on the irrefutable premise that the studio could hardly throw anything out of his movies if there was nothing else to put in.
l79Q1 TIL A Crossair flight crashed in Switzerland causing 24 deaths due to pilot error. The same pilot previously overflew a destination in Switzerland to Italy and only realized it when a passenger could see road signs in Italian.
NXdEJ TIL of Zheng Pingru, a female Chinese socialite who would join the resistance against the Japanese occupation of Shanghai during World War 2. She was executed after an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Ding Mocun, the security chief of the local Japanese collaborationist regime, who she dated.