From Today I Found Out. There’s an old engineer’s adage that goes: “If it moves but shouldn’t, use duct tape. If it doesn’t move but should, use WD-40.” For nearly 60 years, WD-40, the iconic “toolkit in a can,” has been helping amateurs and professionals alike out of all sorts of sticky mechanical jams. In…

From Today I Found Out. Walter Hunt is a man who is simultaneously considered to have possessed one of the finest inventive minds in all of American history while also being an individual almost no one has ever heard. This is despite the fact that it’s almost guaranteed that one of his inventions is currently…

From Today I Found Out. “Come on, Daddy needs a liveable planet he can rule with an iron fist.” – Sheldon Cooper This is a quote from a season 9 episode of The Big Bang Theory released in 2016 called The Sales Call Sublimation. An episode that is largely noteworthy, at least for the purposes…

From Today I Found Out. On the first of April, 1945, a combined American and British Empire fleet appeared off Okinawa, the southernmost of the Japanese Home Islands. Operation Iceberg, the final naval battle of the Second World War, was about to begin. As hundreds of aircraft roared overhead and enormous shells fired from battleships…

From Today I Found Out. Anybody reading remember the film Jingle All The Way, you know the one where Arnold Schwarzenegger body checks his way through a crowd of harried single mums, is an accessory to a bomb threat and physically assaults like 4 retail workers, all for the chance to get his hands on…

From Today I Found Out. Scapa Flow lies barely seven degrees below the Arctic Circle, in the cold, windswept Orkney Islands at the northern tip of Scotland. Measuring 10 kilometres wide by 8 kilometres long with an average depth of 30 metres, this natural anchorage is bounded to the north by the mainland, to the…

From Today I Found Out. In this compilation video, we’re looking at the insanely cool massive ancient underground city of Derinkuyu, how the ancient Romans manged to build perfectly straight roads, how one actually became a Spartan Warrior, and finally what the Ancient Greeks actually said about Atlantis. 0:00 The Massive Ancient Underground City of…

From Today I Found Out. Ever watched pro wrestling, and asked yourself “Could those moves work in a real fight?” If we are talking about spectacular finishers like the Canadian Destroyer, One Winged Angel, or the F5, the answer is probably not. If we are talking about holds rooted in catch wrestling, then not only…

From Today I Found Out. At 11:15 PM on August 3, 1958, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower received a historic radio message: “Nautilus 90 North.” U.S.S. Nautilus, the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine, had just reached the North Pole while sailing beneath the Arctic ice cap. Known as Project Sunshine, this submerged voyage to the…

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From Today I Found Out. On April 9, 1959, the newly-formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, introduced the world to a new breed of heroes: the Mercury Seven, America’s first astronauts. Selected from a pool of over 500 military test pilots, these men represented the best the nation had to offer, and its…

From Today I Found Out. In August 1944, shortly after the Allied landings in Normandy, Flight Lieutenant Walter Dinsdale and Pilot Officer Jack Dunn of the Royal Canadian Air Force were flying their de Havilland Mosquito heavy fighter over the invasion beaches when they spotted an unusual shape in the distance. For several moments, the…

From Today I Found Out. In today’s compilation video, we are looking at Did Ancient Egyptians Walk Like an Egyptian, Did Booby Traps Really Exist in Ancient Egyptian Tombs, The Ancient World’s Ingenious Ice Making Air Condition System, Did the Hanging Gardens of Babylon Actually Exist, What’s Inside the Egyptian Pyramids? and How Did Ancient…

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From Today I Found Out. The Boeing 747 is among the most iconic and celebrated aircraft in history. Since first taking to the skies in 1969, the world’s first “Jumbo Jet” has become synonymous with luxury and reliability in air travel, the more than 1,500 aircraft produced having carried over 4 billion passengers over the…

From Today I Found Out. Columbine, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, University of Texas, Stoneham Douglas High, Polytechnic, these are names that will live in infamy burned into our collective memories as sights of those seemingly modern violent acts school shootings. The thought of our most vulnerable and innocent being senselessly slaughtered in a place of…

From Today I Found Out. During the Cold War, the U.S. government was hell-bent on one upping the commies in any way possible. In the process, they came up with a number of outlandish plans, such as that time they proposed literally nuking the moon, interestingly enough a project a young Carl Sagan worked on…

From Today I Found Out. At 10:30 AM on January 17, 1966, an enormous explosion shattered the silence over the small farming village Palomares in Spain. An enormous fireball erupted in the sky overhead, and pieces of flaming debris began raining down over the surrounding countryside. Two U.S. Air Force aircraft had collided during a…

From Today I Found Out. In a typical 19th century city, the buildings were not exactly the skyscrapers we associate with cities today, and mostly made of wood. Asphalt was missing entirely from the streets, the clothing was hand-crafted and aesthetic in its own right, the store fronts proclaimed all sorts of fancy products that…

From Today I Found Out. In today’s compilation video, we’re looking at a slew of Hollywood vs Reality things like whether anyone has ever actually played Russian Roulette or if it’s just a Hollywood invention. How Hollywood studios constantly get access to military personnel and equipment and how much movies like Top Gun end up…

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From Today I Found Out. A speeding bullet ripping through an apple, a split second before the fruit disintegrates. A drop of milk splashing off a red plate, forming a perfect miniature coronet. An atomic bomb frozen just after detonation, the fireball like a giant, surreal jellyfish. The movement of a golfer captured at split-second…

From Today I Found Out. On November 28, 1787, His Majesty’s Armed Vessel Bounty set sail from England with 46 men aboard, bound for the island of Tahiti in the South Pacific. Commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh, her mission was to collect and deliver breadfruit plants to the West Indies, where they would serve as…