› added 12 years ago

194

TIL Elephants are quickly evolving smaller tusks due to the massive amount of poaching over the past 150 years

Read more enn.com

via reddit.com

XEXMr TIL in 2013 the Redskins cheerleaders were being exploited to please sponsors in a showing outside the country and some were made to strip in front of male guest and passports were removed.
E1vlp TIL “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” has five verses
rROpx TIL Walter Jackson Freeman II, creator of the "icepick" lobotomy, performed as many as 4,000 surgeries in 23 states despite the fact that he had no formal surgical training. Up to 40% of Freeman's patients were gay individuals subjected to a lobotomy in order to change their homosexual orientation.
g6l9 TIL that the old McDonald’s coffee spoon was discontinued because it was used widely for drug measurement and intranasal delivery.
ybEw TIL that camels are native to North America and used to exist nowhere else in the world.