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TIL the 1960’s Pink Panther car was custome built on an Oldsmobile Chassis & V8 engine. Instead of a rearview mirror it had a camera and back and black & white television monitor. The ‘Panthermobile’ cost $100,000 to build, equivalent to $476,000 in 2021.

by whatilearned May 22, 2022, 11:18 am

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There is nothing built in America anymore.

by cringeyjokesman May 17, 2022, 12:46 am

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TIL that the 1972 videogame Pong by Atari, which was the first commercially successful videogame in history, was built entirely from analog circuitry. In other words, it didn’t make use of a single line of code

by whatilearned May 14, 2022, 8:58 am

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TIL that America built 12 Concrete Ships near the end of WW1 due to a steel shortage. They weren’t complete failures but had high running costs and after the war, they were withdrawn from service.

by whatilearned May 13, 2022, 6:01 pm

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TIL about the Gatun Dam. It was built to facilitate construction of the Panama Canal and was the largest damn in the world at the time.

by whatilearned May 13, 2022, 4:57 pm

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TIL: Fordlandia, a small town built by Henry Ford in the middle of the Amazon jungle meant to resemble Northern Michigan of the 1930s. It was a failed state meant to produce enough rubber for his growing car production.

by whatilearned May 12, 2022, 10:46 pm

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TIL there’s a fake American Wild West town in England, called Laredo, built by re-enactors, who bring it to life every other weekend.

by whatilearned May 12, 2022, 3:04 pm

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TIL that certain parts of the German Autobahn were built to be rapidly transformed into NATO warplane landing strips

by whatilearned May 11, 2022, 2:49 pm

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TIL the Spanish-built fort of Castillo de San Marcos in Florida was built of coquina – sedimentary rock formed from compressed shells of dead marine organisms – and would “swallow” cannonballs.

by whatilearned May 9, 2022, 1:22 pm

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TIL that two executive mansions were specifically built for the President of the US before the White House. Neither was ever used by a President.

by whatilearned May 7, 2022, 2:48 pm

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TIL about a super modern €1.4bn nuclear power plant in Austria that never went into service, because a 50.47% majority in a referendum voted against it.. after it was built.

by whatilearned May 7, 2022, 11:54 am

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TIL that the Empire State Building, built in 1930 was designed with the ability for an Airship/Zeppelin to dock at the very top of the skyscraper, overlooking all of NYC.

by whatilearned May 6, 2022, 4:53 pm

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