January 2017 - Page 5 of 6

8 Awesome Facts About the Catskills

(via mental_floss) The concrete jungle may be sprinkled with man-made parks and tree-lined streets, but the great outdoors? Not so

(via Popular Mechanics) In January 1945, just months before Germany’s unconditional surrender in World War Two, George S. Patton declared

(via TED Ed) Teflon was in the spacesuits the Apollo crew wore for the moon landing, in pipes and valves

(via Great Big Story) In a curious lagoon 12,000 feet above sea level, the water runs blood red. The Red

(via Nat and Lo) The internet is powered by over 300 heavy duty underwater cables that carry 99% of all

(via Great Big Story) The video game ‘E.T, The Extraterrestrial’ for Atari 2600 is considered one of the biggest flops

Siggi Rafn Hilmarsson is an Icelandic baker with an interesting technique. He buries his dough 16 inches underground where it

(via Real Life Lore) In 1921, at the territorial height of the British Empire, 23 percent of the world’s population

(via Amusing Planet) At 11 foot 8 inches, the Norfolk Southern–Gregson Street Overpass, located in Durham, North Carolina, is a

(via JStor) Meal kits, currently a niche product sold by startups like Blue Apron, could be hitting the bigtime, with

(via TED-Ed) It is estimated that Johnson & Johnson have made an astounding 100 billion Band-Aids since they were invented

(via vsuete.com) The Monument to Laboratory Mice for their services to science was installed in the square not far from