bOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 14 小时前TIL birds can eat hot pepper without a problem because they don’t feel its hotnessplus-squareeugene.wbu.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11external-linkTIL birds can eat hot pepper without a problem because they don’t feel its hotnessplus-squareeugene.wbu.combOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 14 小时前message-square0fedilink
bOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 14 小时前TIL Jack Black didn't learn how to play the guitar until he was 23 years old. Kyle Gass taught him to play guitar in return for food, mainly from the fast food chain Jack in the Boxplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11external-linkTIL Jack Black didn't learn how to play the guitar until he was 23 years old. Kyle Gass taught him to play guitar in return for food, mainly from the fast food chain Jack in the Boxplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgbOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 14 小时前message-square0fedilink
bOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 14 小时前TIL Komodo dragons can have so-called virgin births. As well as mating with males the species is parthenogenetic: in other words, the females can lay fertile eggs without any input from males. Thi...plus-squarebiaza.org.ukexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11external-linkTIL Komodo dragons can have so-called virgin births. As well as mating with males the species is parthenogenetic: in other words, the females can lay fertile eggs without any input from males. Thi...plus-squarebiaza.org.ukbOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 14 小时前message-square0fedilink
bOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 14 小时前TIL: The CIA unsuccessfully tried to assassinate the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro over 634 times, including using an exploding cigarplus-squarewww.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11external-linkTIL: The CIA unsuccessfully tried to assassinate the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro over 634 times, including using an exploding cigarplus-squarewww.nbcnews.combOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 14 小时前message-square0fedilink
bOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 14 小时前TIL about the Zanclean flood: 5.33 Mya the dried-up Mediterranean Sea completely refilled within months, after being cut-off from the Atlantic for 630,000 years (Messinian salinity crisis). The wa...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11external-linkTIL about the Zanclean flood: 5.33 Mya the dried-up Mediterranean Sea completely refilled within months, after being cut-off from the Atlantic for 630,000 years (Messinian salinity crisis). The wa...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgbOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 14 小时前message-square0fedilink
bOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前TIL Malaysia banned Brad Pitt adverts due to concerns it would inflate male beauty standardsplus-squarewww.cnn.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11external-linkTIL Malaysia banned Brad Pitt adverts due to concerns it would inflate male beauty standardsplus-squarewww.cnn.combOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前message-square0fedilink
bOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前TIL that in 1996, Canadian Prime Minister, Jean Chretien, casually choke-slammed two protesters to the ground at a public event while making his way through a crowd. It is known as the “Shawinigan...plus-squarewww.cbc.caexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11external-linkTIL that in 1996, Canadian Prime Minister, Jean Chretien, casually choke-slammed two protesters to the ground at a public event while making his way through a crowd. It is known as the “Shawinigan...plus-squarewww.cbc.cabOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前message-square0fedilink
bOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前TIL George H.W. Bush was named “Skin Man of the Year” by pork-rind manufacturers after he expressed a fondness for the snack in 1988 that led to a spike in salesplus-squarenymag.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11external-linkTIL George H.W. Bush was named “Skin Man of the Year” by pork-rind manufacturers after he expressed a fondness for the snack in 1988 that led to a spike in salesplus-squarenymag.combOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前message-square0fedilink
bOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前TIL There are only 28 hotels in the world with 3000 or more rooms and 15 of them are in Las Vegas.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11external-linkTIL There are only 28 hotels in the world with 3000 or more rooms and 15 of them are in Las Vegas.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgbOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前message-square0fedilink
bOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前TIL Moon Trees: There are trees growing on Earth today that were grown from seeds that orbited the moon aboard the Apollo 14 mission in 1971. These “moon trees” are found in parks across the U.S.plus-squarenssdc.gsfc.nasa.govexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11external-linkTIL Moon Trees: There are trees growing on Earth today that were grown from seeds that orbited the moon aboard the Apollo 14 mission in 1971. These “moon trees” are found in parks across the U.S.plus-squarenssdc.gsfc.nasa.govbOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前message-square0fedilink
bOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前TIL that when “Fight Club” premiered at the 1999 Venice Film Festival, it got booed hard by the audience. Ed Norton said that as it was happening, Brad Pitt turned to him and said: “That’s the bes...plus-squaregeektyrant.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11external-linkTIL that when “Fight Club” premiered at the 1999 Venice Film Festival, it got booed hard by the audience. Ed Norton said that as it was happening, Brad Pitt turned to him and said: “That’s the bes...plus-squaregeektyrant.combOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前message-square0fedilink
bOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前TIL that Kirk Douglas and his wife lived to a combined age of 205plus-squarewww.townandcountrymag.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11external-linkTIL that Kirk Douglas and his wife lived to a combined age of 205plus-squarewww.townandcountrymag.combOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前message-square0fedilink
bOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前TIL The rarest eye color is green, as only about 2 percent of the world’s population sport this shade. About 10,000 years ago, all humans had brown eyes and over half the people in the world have ...plus-squarewww.aarp.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11external-linkTIL The rarest eye color is green, as only about 2 percent of the world’s population sport this shade. About 10,000 years ago, all humans had brown eyes and over half the people in the world have ...plus-squarewww.aarp.orgbOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前message-square0fedilink
bOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前TIL that during the Cold War, the U.S. Army trained elite soldiers to deploy nuclear weapons by hand. They developed special rigs for Special Forces paratroopers to jump with bombs strapped to the...plus-squarewww.twz.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11external-linkTIL that during the Cold War, the U.S. Army trained elite soldiers to deploy nuclear weapons by hand. They developed special rigs for Special Forces paratroopers to jump with bombs strapped to the...plus-squarewww.twz.combOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前message-square0fedilink
bOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前TIL there are Japanese, Chinese and Korean studies correlating male nose size and penis size. For Japanese studies, cadavers were used and "stretched length" was measured.plus-squarepubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11external-linkTIL there are Japanese, Chinese and Korean studies correlating male nose size and penis size. For Japanese studies, cadavers were used and "stretched length" was measured.plus-squarepubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govbOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前message-square0fedilink
bOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前TIL that Billy the Kid was promised a pardon for his crimes if he testified for a murder he witnessed. A pardon that was eventually denied in 2010.plus-squareabcnews.go.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11external-linkTIL that Billy the Kid was promised a pardon for his crimes if he testified for a murder he witnessed. A pardon that was eventually denied in 2010.plus-squareabcnews.go.combOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前message-square0fedilink
bOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前TIL Nine of the ten of the cities with the highest homicide rate per capita are in Mexicoplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11external-linkTIL Nine of the ten of the cities with the highest homicide rate per capita are in Mexicoplus-squareen.wikipedia.orgbOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前message-square0fedilink
bOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前TIL Pink Floyd's album "The Wall," and specifically the track "Another Brick in the Wall (part 2)," was banned in South Africa because it was used to protest apartheid education.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11external-linkTIL Pink Floyd's album "The Wall," and specifically the track "Another Brick in the Wall (part 2)," was banned in South Africa because it was used to protest apartheid education.plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgbOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前message-square0fedilink
bOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前TIL television broadcasters sped up tapes of I Love Lucy reruns in the 1970s while using a special hardware effects unit to alter the actors' voices to their normal pitch. This effectively made mo...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11external-linkTIL television broadcasters sped up tapes of I Love Lucy reruns in the 1970s while using a special hardware effects unit to alter the actors' voices to their normal pitch. This effectively made mo...plus-squareen.wikipedia.orgbOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前message-square0fedilink
bOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前TIL that only 12% of Americans are metabolically healthy, or 1 in 8 Americans.plus-squarewww.unc.eduexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11external-linkTIL that only 12% of Americans are metabolically healthy, or 1 in 8 Americans.plus-squarewww.unc.edubOt@zerobytes.monsterM · 1 天前message-square0fedilink