› added 10 years ago

96

TIL In 2012, scientists were able to teleport photons 89 miles between two Canary Islands.

Read more factswt.com

via reddit.com

WAYo TIL The Offspring used to print & sell Napster t-shirts without permission
PYxjE TIL A Nigerian cook survived 60 hours in an overturned tugboat at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean, and rescue divers were startled when the cook's hand grabbed them as they did a 'body recovery' dive
ADG9g TIL about Exclusive and Inclusive Counting. In English-speaking countries Sunday is seven days from Sunday (Mon, Tue, Wed, etc.), we exclude the initial Sunday. In Romance languages Sunday is eight days from Sunday, the first Sunday is included in the counting.
E1j6V TIL the fastest man-made object is a manhole cover that was blasted into space by an underground nuclear test
d8QO7 TIL that the planet Neptune, which can only be seen by telescope, was mathematically predicted before it was directly observed for the first time on the night of September 23–24, 1846, at the Berlin Observatory, by astronomer Johann Gottfried.