› added 12 years ago

190

TIL that a seven year old girl set out on a highly-publicized attempt to be the youngest pilot to fly coast to coast. Her plane crashed less than 24 hours into the journey, killing everyone on board.

Read more sfgate.com

via reddit.com

m1aNY TIL that Vincent van Gogh painted his iconic Irises while staying at an “insane” asylum, inspired by the vibrant flowers he observed in the courtyard from his window.
do7j Today I learned that, after surviving a 5-story fall and coming back up the stairs to see his wife screaming, a drunk Russian man then jumped back off the balcony, surviving again
v1nOr TIL despite maximum speed of 200 mph and carrying over 10 billion passengers, there hasn't been a single recorded fatality from the Japanese Bullet Train
4ooo TIL In the Bible, The New Testament mentions that from Heaven will descend an enormous city named New Jerusalem made of “pure gold, like clear glass” and gives its specific dimensions, 1.9 million square miles. If rested on the Earth, its ceiling would be inside the exosphere.
yQ4bv TIL about an experiment that mapped 1 cubic millimeter (about the size of a grain of sand) of mouse brain by slicing it into 25000 pieces and scanning them for 3 months. The completed data set had a size of almost 2 million gigabytes.