› added 8 years ago

172

TIL that the Dutch are the tallest people on the planet

Read more bbc.com

via reddit.com

ek85 TIL of a terrorist strategy to avoid tracked emails is for one terrorist to compose an email, save it as a draft, while another terrorist logs into the same account to read and delete the draft.
VMx5Z TIL that a comic book writer adopted two black daughters and wanted a comic book character they could relate to, so he made Miles Morales
d81r8 TIL about Eric Morse who was 5 years old when he was murdered by two 11 year olds who threw him out of a window in Chicago
N757M TIL an MIT study found that tin-foil hats amplified "radio bands reserved for government use" rather than blocking signals.
W799X Today I learned that looking at the rocks lower left of the famous portrait depicting Napoléon's crossing of the Alps by Jacques-Louis David, it is seen that the names of Hannibal and Charlemagne, who had previously crossed the Alps, were engraved.