› added 9 years ago

221

TIL that the Boeing factory in Washington is so big that when it was first built clouds formed near the ceiling.

Read more blogs.mentor.com

via reddit.com

OGJEe TIL There is a Chinese poem entitled "Shī-shì shí shī shǐ", with 92 words - all of which are "shi". The poem becomes comprehensible because Chinese is a tonal language - where the same word can be pronounced with many different tones. Supposedly, the poem is more sensible in Cantonese than Mandarin
4k6Ga TIL Horseshoe Crabs are more closely related to scorpions and spiders than they are to true crabs
rawo TIL Johnny Appleseed didn’t plant his trees to feed people, he planted them to sell them and get people drunk.
BgVpx TIL: In 1880, the ages of consent in the US were set at 10 or 12 in most states, with the exception of Delaware where it was 7.
jNZ7n TIL of Hermann Grassmann, an untrained Prussian mathematician who created linear algebra (the central tool of quantum mechanics) 65 years before it found it's use in QM. For most of his life he was considered a crackpot but received an honourary PhD shortly before he died.