› added 9 years ago

99

TIL in 1897, there were plans to build a bicycle “superhighway” that would have run between Pasadena and Los Angeles.

Read more motherboard.vice.com

via reddit.com

DQA9p TIL that your cat's "zoomies" are actually called "frenetic random activity periods" or FRAP for short.
vPj6B TIL about Pérák, the Spring Man of Prague, who began as an urban legend during the Nazi occupation of the Czech capital city and later became a pop-culture antifascist superhero.
nWVj9 TIL Montecristo cigars are named after the classic novel because cigar rollers at the time were read to for entertainment whilst working and ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ was a favourite among the staff.
Zp78D TIL about the Indian Vulture Crisis, in which Indian farmers’ use of a livestock medication led to the near eradication of vulture species and subsequent epidemiological catastrophe, costing the nation US$23bn per year
XE516 TIL Peter Cushing - Grand Moff Tarkin of Star Wars fame - was an avid wargamer and played "Little Wars" by H.G. Wells