TIL a Mongol advisor talked the Khan out of killing all of northern China's peasants by calculating they'd pay 500,000 coins of silver a year in taxes if left alive.
Built in 1773 by inventor John Joseph Merlin and London clockmaker James Cox, this clockwork swan still comes to life today using only springs, gears and mechanics no electricity, motor or batteries r
TIL that for Con Air, filmmakers used a real, gutted C-123K and sent it crashing into the actual Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, with 14 cameras filming the stunt.
TIL that Lose/Lose is a 2009 video game made as an art project that erases a random file from your computer for each enemy you beat and can therefore brick it by design if you're not lucky. A reviewer
OpenAI projections point to a massive $278 billion cash burn through 2030 that exceeds the national budgets of Indonesia and Norway — $856 billion compute tab outpaces tenfold revenue surge
TIL:That Tupac Shakur was a member of the Baltimore Young Communist League and dated the daughter of the director of the local chapter of the Communist Party USA.
Screening newborns for congenital cytomegalovirus, the leading nongenetic cause of childhood hearing loss, raised detection 2.5-fold across a 50,438-birth hospital system; 34 infected infants found am
TIL that the sculpture "L'Homme au doigt" was auctioned for $141.3 million, making it twice as expensive as the most expensive auctioned jewel (the Pink Star diamond), and almost the exact same price
TIL Jimi Hendrix was inspired to write the song "The Wind Cries Mary" as an apology after having a heated argument with his girlfriend Kathy Mary Etchingham over a plate of lumpy mashed potatoes.
An unhealthy Western-style diet was associated with a faster cognitive decline in people with a genetic risk of Alzheimer's disease, according to a study on 185 older adults followed for more than 7 y
TIL a Babylonian clay tablet called Plimpton 322, made around 1800 BC, lists number patterns matching Pythagorean triples, over 1,000 years before Pythagoras was born
Babies ‘will face almost twice as much’ extreme fire weather in Europe than great-grandparents. Under current policies, which will result in 2.6C of warming, children born today can expect to experien
Sex differences in attention are present at birth. The findings suggest that some psychological differences between males and females (such the development of social skills) may be influenced by both
A recent study published in Imaging Neuroscience indicates that engaging in a very slow jog for just ten minutes can improve a person’s mood and enhance their ability to focus.
Standoff That Changed American Law Enforcement Forever, How the North Hollywood Shootout Led to New Police Tactics, Heavier Firepower, Better Body Armor and Changes in Law Enforcement Equipment
