› added 5 months ago

25

TIL that while the American Revolutionary War started due to unjust treatment of Americans, hostilities were first opened by their oppressors

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

X7ZE TIL William Kamkwamba aged 14, learnt how to build an electricity-producing windmill from spare parts and scrap from information gained in library books, after being forced to drop out of school due to poverty.
X05ND TIL that in 1965 in Turkey, a bus hit a truck that was loaded with nitric acid that stopped in the middle of the road due to a shaft issue from behind. When passengers get off the bus, their feet burned and thinking there was water in the nearest pit, they jumped into nitric acid pit. 25 died.
m1dPv TIL the Sun makes a full rotation every 27 days.
aDb9 Today I learned that Chocolate Milk was invented in Ireland
MekrV TIL: Cable TV networks increase the speed of T.V shows e.g. 'Friends' or 'Seinfield' to around 1.2x speed so that they can fit in extra commercials