› added 4 years ago

230

TIL one second of the sun's energy is enough to supply earth's current energy consumption for 300,000 years.

Read more syfy.com

via reddit.com

78nB7 TIL in September 2012, 88 year-old Ilda Vitor Maciel was killed in a Rio de Janeiro clinic after nurses injected her IV with soup; a month later, 80 year-old Palmerina Pires Ribeiro was killed in Rio de Janeiro when a nurse injected her IV with coffee. The cases are unrelated.
xVPQ0 TIL People who work in slaughterhouses can and do suffer from PTSD
XEwVD TIL of Pax Americana, a period of relative peace beginning around the middle of the 20th century, brought about by the dominant power of the United States. Similar time periods were Pax Romana and Pax Britannica.
QJgka TIL the Beatles asked Stanley Kubrick to direct Lord of the Rings with them starring in it. John Lennon wanted to play Gollum, Paul McCartney Frodo, Ringo Starr Sam, and Harrison Gandalf. Kubrick turned them down, and Tolkien didn’t like the idea of a Beatles adaptation of his work
WkvaX TIL President Nixon had a 'Moon Disaster' speech ready in case Apollo 11 astronauts died