› added 11 years ago

164

TIL the amount of bacteria/other filth on a pair of jeans doesn’t increase after about 2 weeks of wear, with the study having the test subject wear the jeans non-stop for 15 months, and still not developing an unhealthy amount of bacteria.

Read more news.nationalpost.com

via reddit.com

0Ol1 TIL Harry Markopolos determined Bernie Madoff was a fraud within five minutes of review. He then spent 10 unsuccessful years trying to alert the SEC.
kOp94 TIL of the Lake Nyos Disaster in Camaroon. A limnic eruption (dissolved carbon dioxide suddenly erupts from deep lake waters) killed over 1,700 people.
4k86X TIL Emerson Romero was a silent film actor who was deaf. When movies with sound were invented, deaf actors got less roles and the intertitle text was removed. This led him to make an early form of movie captioning in 1947 so that movies would still be accessible to deaf people.
gjgD TIL Eye-wear is getting too costly because a single company Luxottica controls 80% of the major brands in the $28 billion global eyeglasses industry.
1a6O4 TIL You need a visa to travel from Hong Kong to China, even though Hong Kong is technically a part of China.