VBbb8 TIL that a French guy tried (and failed) to settle on a remote island in the Southern Indian Ocean, leaving 5 cows on the island in 1871. The cattle would go on to multiply, destroy the islands' forest, and contributed to the extinction of some endemic birds.
X0bb8 TIL the village of Rio Rico was part of the United States until the 1970s, when it was later ceded to Mexico.
OGvvR TIL of poena cullei, a Roman execution method for parricide where criminals were tied in a sack with live animals and drowned
69wwJ TIL Bobby Brown claims he was one of the kids that taught Michael Jackson how to moonwalk.
wo441 TIL: Some mountain ranges are off-limits to climbers for religious reasons — for example, Mount Meili in the Tibetan regions of China.
R5yyQ TIL after a student took his own life learning he could not graduate due to insufficient grades, his mother prompted an investigation. It turns out an error by the university made him recieve the wrong grade.
W7bbA TIL the male G-spot is real and it’s in their prostate - yes, up their butts
9wXXX TIL The giant panda wasn't recognized as a true bear until 1985 because it shared traits with raccoons
nWMMP TIL your fingerprints aren't truly unique... The odds of two people having the exact same fingerprint are around 1 in 64 billion. Since an estimated 108 billion people have been born throughout history, probability suggests that many individuals must share identical fingerprint pattern.
4kWWJ TIL about the Volkssturm, Nazi Germany's last-ditch army that conscripted men 16-60 who weren't already serving. As the situation got desperate in 1944-45, women and disabled WWI veterans were conscripted, armed with outdated and improvised weaponry, uniformed in just an armband and sent to Berlin.
x6nng Today I learned when great British Bake Off hosts Mel and Sue would see a contestant crying out of frustration or disappointment, they would use their coats to block the person from cameras, or start swearing a lot, so the footage was unusable.
epbb5 TIL that Napoleon Bonaparte wrote a romance novel called Clisson et Eugénie in 1795. It is about a french revolutionary soldier called Clisson who falls in love with a woman at a public bath named Eugénie. After Clisson returns to war Eugénie falls for another man and he commits suicide.