› added 8 years ago

350

TIL: The Soviet Union built the first supersonic airliner (before the Concorde) and it was a disastrous failure

Read more youtube.com

via reddit.com

wo5A7 TIL that the chemist Alexander Shulgin invented over 200 psychedelic drugs , self-administered them and wrote a book the experience he had with each of them
mxwrE The first ever YouTube video was uploaded 15 years ago today
e944 TIL that two men vanished months apart after being pulled over by the same Police Officer
LkxMP TIL that heroin was used as a painkiller for kids
AN8p4 TIL that a freedman from the Roman Empire (Romanukha) accidentally sailed to Sri Lanka (the Anuradhapura Kingdom) and met King Bhatika Abhaya. Impressed by Roman coins, the King became interested in Western civilization and sent a Sinhalese freedman (later diplomat) to Rome.