› added 5 years ago

197

TIL Toshiba developed micro-nuclear reactor to power a standard home for 40 years at 5 cents per kilowatt hour, about half the cost of grid energy.

Read more gizmodo.com

via reddit.com

gMg84 TIL A 30,000 Year Old Virus Was Found to Still Be Infectious After It Was Isolated from Siberian Permafrost
WEL9 TIL that the Dutch word for fun is ‘lol’.
R59d9 TIL author Honoré de Balzac, best known for The Human Comedy, wrote a fanfiction sequel to the Gothic novel Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin
6all TIL different metals make distinct patterns of sparks when struck
OGoGY TIL that ants can be smelled but only by some people.