› added 4 months ago

12

TIL about Nintendo Gateway System, which was a video game system installed on the seats of airplanes

Read more snescentral.com

via reddit.com

d80v7 TIL About the Lykov family, who isolated themselves in the Russian Taiga to escape religious persecution. They lived in total isolation for 40 years and were unaware that WWII had even happened. One daughter still lives there — at 74 years old.
DlDY TIL after President George H.W. Bush and the First Lady were diagnosed with Graves’ disease — and their dog, lupus — the Secret Service tested the White House water supply
7r1or TIL the "Cheerios effect" is an interesting fluid dynamics phenomenon that happens in cereal bowls. When there are just a few bits of cereal left floating on top of the milk, they tend to cluster together in the middle or around the edges of the bowl, rather than dispersing across the surface.
PbgO TIL: Now that Japan has ceased whaling, Norway kills more whales than any other country.
XEAvD TIL there's a guest house in Belfast that serves the same 9-course dinner that was offered to first-class passengers of the Titanic