› added 1 year ago

62

TIL What Really Happened to Ahmed Best and Jake Lloyd

Read more youtu.be

via reddit.com

9E5M TIL that London, UK still has 1500 gas street lights in operation
WkQKo TIL that since American baby names' popularity started to be recorded in 1880, only one girls' name has remained around the top 25: Elizabeth. It reached a high of #3 in 1887, low of #26 in 1948, and was the 17th most popular girls' name in 2017.
b6Ox4 TIL in 2009, Benjamin Moody cracked the signing key to a TI-83+ calculator in 73 days on a 1.9 GHz dual-core processor, allowing users to flash their own OS. In 1999 same algorithm required a Cray supercomputer and 8000 MIPS-years of computing time to factorize a similar 512-bit key.
mxlaE TIL that Australian Funnel-Web Spiders, one of the most dangerous species of spiders, can survive underwater up to 24-30 hours
8GW8 TIL Leo Ryan is the only member of US Congress ever killed in the line of duty. He was assassinated while investigating human rights violations at Jonestown.