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TIL: The most living generations at once was 7, back in 1989. They each had their child between 18 to 20yrs of age

I was trying to figure out how many generations could theoretically exist at the same time, so I decided to first check Guinness. Hopefully I did all the math correctly.

TIL there is a theory that Columbus' Navigator, William Harris AKA Guillermo Herries, an Irishman from Galway, had actually sailed to the Americas before 1492. (youtu.be)

TIL that the first computer programmer was a woman. Her name was Ada Lovelace. (www.britannica.com)

TIL the notion that lactic acid is the reason we experience muscle soreness after a workout has been debunked in the 1980s. Research suggests the soreness is a result of a cascade of physiological ... (www.pfizer.com)

TIL that the original Bozo the Clown(1946) Pinto Colvig, had a son, Vance Colvig Jr., who landed the job of Bozo in the first local TV station to franchise the character in 1959. (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL about William Phelps Eno. He invented traffic regulations, the stop sign, the crosswalk, the roundabout, the one-way street and pedestrian safety islands. He never learned how to drive. (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL Of Shannon's number. This number states that the game of chess holds more move possibilities than the entire universe holds atoms. (www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk)

TIL that in 1563, Johann Weyer argued against Witch hunts and instead that the accused should be treated as having a mental illness. (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL that VP Kamala Harris' Father Was a 'Marxist Economist'. (www.snopes.com)

TIL that Joe Biden is from Scranton, PA (sh.itjust.works)

Learned something new today while listening to a podcast about US politics.

TIL the writers of "Take me Out to the Ball Game" had never seen a baseball game (historyfacts.com)

TIL there's a rich history of conspiracy theories centered around Denver International Airport (history.denverlibrary.org)

TIL there was an unreleased comic book in which Marvel superhero Captain Britain would resolve The Troubles by having everyone drink "magic civilizing tea" (www.eruditorumpress.com)

TIL that in the 1860s one meaning of "Trump" was "A good fellow; an excellent person". (archive.org)

Maybe the “great” America that Donald wants to take us back to is the 1860s?

TIL almost all vanilla plants are pollinated by hand. (en.wikipedia.org)

I was reading about Edmond Albius, the former slave who learned how to pollinate the vanilla plant (at age 12!), which is why we have commercial vanilla today....

TIL not to microwave pancakes for 2 minutes

I learned this morning that if you microwave frozen pancakes for 2 minutes you’ll have to throw the plastic plate out

TIL that The Smallest Computer in the World Fits On a Grain of Rice (ece.engin.umich.edu)

TIL about the scientist who stuck his head in an active particle accelerator and the scientist who accidentally gave himself the wrong STD (youtu.be)

Worst Science Experiments Gone Wrong...

TIL about a collection of math problems, known as “The Millennium Problems” that will earn the solver a $1 million prize (www.claymath.org)

A collection of mysterious and unsolved math problems, also known as “The Millennium Problems” are 7 extremely challenging and complex mathematical problems selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000. Solving any of these problems would not only advance our understanding of mathematics but also earn the solver a...

TIL - "Mage" derives from Magush, the old persian name for Zoroastrian priests, which means "Fire worshipper" (en.wikipedia.org)

Wasn’t actually today, but it’s an interesting etymology. Old Arabian speaks “majus” because they lack a hard G sound, similar to Japanese lacking L sound...

TIL that the BBC had no archival policy until 1978, and many of its old broadcasts were only aired live. A number of BBC broadcasts are lost, including a show featuring a then-unknown Bob Dylan; 97... (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL the American Military’s C-5 Galaxy is nicknamed FRED by aircrews for “Fucking Ridiculous Economic (or) Environmental Disaster”. Due to the C-5 using large amounts of fuel, maintenance, reliability (en.wikipedia.org)

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