› added 10 months ago

28

TIL the plane which dropped the atomic bomb in WW2, the B-29 Superfortress, was more expensive to develop ($3 billion) than the Manhattan Project ($1.9 billion).

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

eweg TIL State Troopers in many States have a switch inside their cruiser that disables one of the headlights. This lulls a potential Perp into a false sense of security believing that they are only being followed by a civilian.
a8rdo TIL the first email was sent in 1971, almost two decades before the World Wide Web existed
b6Lrj TIL With 3,213 metres (10500 feet) from the support tower to the top station, the cable car Zugspitze has the world’s longest free span.
oRD8 TIL Japan holds the world record for largest orgy.
Jn4B TIL China is home to the world’s largest wind farm which has a capacity equivalent to the United Kingdom’s entire wind power capacity. It’s capacity is slated to quadruple.