› added 6 months ago

44

TIL in 1996, a cyclone with charactristics of a tropical storm formed over Lake Huron and lasted for about 5 days

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

oR71E TIL the game Oregon Trail was developed by 3 college students trying to teach history creatively. The first version was coded in just 10 days in 1971 and played by middle schoolers for 5 days. The code was given to an educational nonprofit in 1974, and the creators never profited from the game.
nGvo TIL Tom Delonge of Blink-182 is a firm believer in extraterrestrial life and once had his phone tapped by the government for coming into possession of 36 hours of Congressional testimonial footage of NASA’s secret space program.
XEOMk TIL At the 1978 Cannes Film Festival, while giving interview after interview, Martin Scorsese ran out of cocaine and found it impossible to continue. "No more coke, no more interviews," he declared.
R58x7 TIL that Button, Cremini, and Portobello Mushrooms are all the same variety of mushroom, Agaricus bisporus, just at different ages.
m1RDx TIL After Machiavelli's works were placed on the first Papal index of prohibited books, his family challenged the decision. The church eventually offered them to allow publication of a censored version of his works, with the author's name suppressed. His grandsons indignantly rejected the offer