Today I Learned (TIL)

[Safferz]

A la Reddit: Post interesting and specific facts that you just found out (no general info others would know, personal opinions or recent events/news), be descriptive and link us to a source if we're interested in reading more.

 

 

TIL that Mount Everest has over 200 perfectly preserved dead bodies that are visible to climbers on the way up to the summit and act as landmarks on the way up. "Green Boots" is one of the best known, apparently.

[Safferz]

TIL if you type "pft pz pz pkw pff pz pz pk pk kkkkkk" and similar garbled words into Google Translate for English to German and click the audio button, Google starts beatboxing.

[Jacpher]

0910, 11-12-13

[Safferz]

Jacpher;985720 wrote:

0910, 11-12-13

Heh, I didn't understand what you meant for a moment but I realize now it's the time and date. 11-12-13, interesting

[Safferz]

TIL that due to the way light travels and reaches us, the stars are actually images of the past and if you are 50 lightyears away from Earth, what you see is Earth from 50 years ago. You see it, but you can't travel there because we travel slower than light. And if you go far enough (from the perspective of other planets, solar systems, etc), you can see the pyramids still being constructed, dinosaurs roaming the Earth, etc. *mind explodes*

[Maqane]

TIL that Caasha's cirib dheer were actually condensation trails/contrails. *hadda lee indhaha kala furay*

[Khayr]

Safferz;985736 wrote:

TIL

that due to the way light travels and reaches us,

the stars are actually images of the past

and if you are 50 lightyears away from Earth, what you see is Earth from 50 years ago. You see it, but you can't travel there because we travel slower than light. And if you go far enough (from the perspective of other planets, solar systems, etc), you can see the pyramids still being constructed, dinosaurs roaming the Earth, etc. *mind explodes*

Have you been chewing chaad lately or smoking a spliff for medicinal proposes (but ofcourse!).

They say writers write their best work when under the influence.

 

That was some serious knowledge thou. Whoa!

[Safferz]

Will check it out. I love learning about astronomy and astrophysics, I enjoy programs with Neil DeGrasse Tyson especially. It's amazing how insignificant and small we are in the universe.

 

Khayr, not at all lol - my sister is taking astronomy right now and told me this fact. I knew that stars are images from the past, but I had never thought to consider things from the vantage point of other planets and stars, looking back at us.

[Haatu]

Today I re-learnt alpha-ketoglutarate.

[Safferz]

TIL that 81% of Americans "believe they have a book in them." lol I guess I'm not destined to become a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, huh?