› added 4 years ago

135

TIL: the SU was the supplier of Titanium for the SR-71 which should spy on the SU

Read more youtu.be

via reddit.com

XlDR TIL I learned since 1876, four US presidents have been elected despite losing the popular vote: all of them Republicans.
e0G8k TIL that the lowest point in Louisiana is found in its largest city, New Orleans, an area that lies at an elevation of 8 feet below sea level. The average elevation of the city lies at 1 to 2 feet below sea level mainly owing to subsidence as much of the city had been constructed on swamp lands.
Ok07 TIL the second longest running animated show in the US is the PBS show “Arthur”, about Arthur the Aardvark
781JM TIL: A geochron is an analog clock that displays day and night on a world map, changing over the course of the day, showing the familiar “bell curve” of light and darkness
RkO7 TIL that there is a hidden spy room at an AT&T building in downtown San Francisco that splits all incoming communications traffic, copying this information to the NSA. This room has been operational since at least 2003 and has been publicly known to exist since 2006.