› added 5 years ago

184

TIL that Abraham Lincoln donated $10 to Ireland during the Great Famine.

Read more irishcentral.com

via reddit.com

x67oB TIL former president Richard Nixon’s daughter, Julie, is married to the grandson of former president Dwight D. Eisenhower
kyMd TIL John Harrison - the only person to be both the child (William Henry Harrison) and the parent (Benjamin Harrison) of U.S. Presidents.
neWgY TIL that early humans hunted animals by chasing them to exhaustion. "Persistence hunting" takes advantage of humans' two legs and ability to sweat, which makes us stronger distance runners than prey.
vPRDx TIL of Boston Red Sox player Fred Thomas, who was granted a furlough by the Navy to play in the 1918 World Series during WWI. He remains the only active member of the military to play in a Major League game.
bEA4 TIL Women prefer the scent of a man that has a different genetic code for their immune system in their DNA: Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) Women who take birth control pills prefer the opposite.