› added 4 years ago

66

TIL the Demon core, a fissile core that went supercritical twice in the 1940s causing the deaths of Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

xVNr1 TIL that while American Sign Language is NOT universal and vastly different than even other English speaking countries, it is similar to French Sign Language because of frenchman Laurent Clerc who helped found the first school of the Deaf in America.
e0QR6 TIL in 2009 an ascot-wearing Jeopardy! contestant and "self-proclaimed gadabout" successfully hid a drawing of a dick in his podium signature
nem1G TIL director Kevin Smith once attended his hometown theatre as a protester to his own movie, Dogma.
lBYN TIL there has been a reported case of human-to-human cancer transmission, where a surgeon cut his hand while resecting a tumor and seeded the patient’s cancer cells on his hand.
lXZr TIL: Claude Monet could see ultraviolet light, a side effect of a 1922 cataract operation. This is why his ‘Haystacks’ era work featured such prominent blues and purples.