› added 2 years ago

98

TIL Canadian soldier Léo Major single-handedly captured 93 German soldiers during World War II

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

YPjG TIL black printer ink is $2,701.52 a gallon and the worlds most expensive liquid is scorpion venom at $38,858,507 a gallon.
RnAa TIL, that ancient sloths were as big as rhinos. They were only exceeded in size by mammoths in other land mammals. There eventual extinction was due to human hunters.
N1jJ TIL that when the Paracutin volcano was born, it emerged so quickly that it pushed up the ground beneath people. Within 24 hours, it was 15 stories high, and by the end of the week it was the height of the Great Pyramids.
OoDdg TIL Dinosaurs lived on the earth over a span of 200 million years. That means less time separates us from T-rex than T-rex from early Stegosaurus (an early dinosaur)
lKJG TIL that in 1956, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke (author of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’) discovered the underwater ruins of an ancient temple in Sri Lanka while scuba diving.