› added 12 years ago

242

TIL the Cleveland Indians once held an ill-fated promotion called 10 cent beer night. A riot ensued and members of both teams had to fight fans to escape the stadium.

Read more espn.go.com

via reddit.com

pDYA TIL that Einstein was rewarded Nobel Prize not for his works with relativity, but for discovery of photoelectric effect.
4kKr6 TIL Ketchup used to be sold as medicine claiming to cure diarrhea
9w0b7 TIL that the first ATM was developed and built by Luther George Simjian, and installed in 1939 in New York city by the City Bank of New York. Six months later, it was removed due to the lack of customer acceptance
Z8dB4 TIL The best-selling English translations of Rumi, the famous 13th Century Persian poet, were done by a woefully underqualified man who doesn't know Persian; never studied Islam or Sufism; took extreme liberties with the original texts; and omitted much of the Islamic references and context
16KQP TIL that the legendary SR-71 'Blackbird' has plans for a successor, the SR-72 'Son of Blackbird'; this craft would be capable of reaching Mach 6. In 2018, Lockheed Martin announced they would have a working prototype by 2025.