The island of Bermuda has no fresh-water springs, rivers or lakes so the design of its roofs is essential for collecting rainwater.

When he left his final recording session in Memphis, Otis Redding intended to return soon to the song he’d been working on—he still had to replace a whistled

offer

Arthur became the first official fastest man when he ran a record time of 10 seconds dead in the 100 yards (now meters) on the 3rd July 1886.

When the city of Rome was founded in 754 BC, it had a monarchical form of government. Find out how the Monarchy was overthrown and what came next.

London isn't famous for hot weather, but that may change soon, and not because of global warming: The design of a new skyscraper in the city is melting cars and setting buildings on fire."It's absolutely ruined," Martin Lindsay told the BBC, referring …

Whether your earwax is wet or dry is determined by a mutation in a single gene, scientists have discovered.

Bees - The Pollen Nation!

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (/də ˈɡoʊl, -ˈɡɔːl/; French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl də ɡol] (listen); 22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional…

The modern automatic door may be something that we take for granted now, but it’s only in the last couple of decades that we have come to expect shops, airport, offices, gyms and other public space doors to slide open for us! The first use of doors of any…

The Hulu documentary, Batman and Bill, revealed a shocking truth. The biggest villain in Gotham isn't the Joker, or the Penguin, or the Riddler, but Batman's creator himself, Bob Kane. In the years following Batman's first

Polonium is a chemical element with the symbol Po and atomic number 84. Polonium is a chalcogen. A rare and highly radioactive metal with no stable isotopes, polonium is chemically similar to selenium and tellurium, though its metallic character resembles…

Posted in r/todayilearned by u/mattchewy43 • 149 points and 9 comments

A recent push to debunk the myth that mayonnaise is prone to spoiling has boosted its distribution at restaurants.

unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 728 airplane in November 1971

Recreation of the evolution of the Messinian salinity crisis, between 6 and 5.3 milion years ago. Note that this is only one of the scenarios proposed by the scientific community studying this period. Time scale (million years per second) not to scale.

See…

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, now in Belgium. A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by two of the armies of the Seventh Coalition. One was a British-led…

Find contact information and other facts about Presidents, Vice Presidents, and First Ladies, past and present.