› added 2 weeks ago

4

TIL that a 1958 earthquake in Alaska caused waves that reached over 500 meters, or over 1,640 feet

Read more earthobservatory.nasa.gov

via reddit.com

ADJbl TIL Fred Durst and his band (Limp Bizkit) wanted a band name that would turn people's heads away when reading it. Names they considered included Gimp Disco, Split Dickslit, Bitch Piglet, and Blood Fart.
QJDNd TIL that in 1979, a South Korean man named Ko Sang-Moon was kidnapped by North Korean agents in Norway after a taxi driver mistakenly dropped him off at the North Korean embassy instead of the South Korean embassy.
QJA6M TIL that Toshiba created the worlds smallest spinning platter hard drive (HDD) in 2004, at a size of just .85 inches (2.1 CM), which could hold 2 or 4 Gigabytes of data and was even used in phones and Apple iPods of the era.
5VJZB TIL that the majority of men in Germany sit down to urinate
rRoQ0 TIL A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess was written over a period of three weeks after he was misdiagnosed with brain cancer and given a year to live.He decided to spend that year writing five novels to provide for his wife after his death. Ironically, he outlived her.