› added 9 years ago

78

TIL 70% of celullar network traffic in Bangladesh is missed calls

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

E1AwX TIL the area covering the present day Republic of Ireland lost over half of its population from 1841 to 1901. The population still hasn't fully recovered.
XERMR TIL: A study was conducted in an Australian University in 2008 found that "male science nerds" are most likely to be virgins and that female art majors were the most sexually active, but have little knowledge of what chlamydia is. The study was prompted by rapidly increasing cases of chlamydia.
nekrY TIL that the fleshy protuberance on the forehead of turkeys is called a snood. While fighting, commercial turkeys often peck at the snood. This often leads to further injuries and sometimes cannibalism. To prevent this, some farmers cut off the snood, a process known as desnooding.
M7NGV TIL NYC's Triborough (RKF) Bridge's Manhattan terminus was routed 25 extra blocks uptown so William Randolph Hearst could sell unwanted land to the city
rROL0 TIL Animal Planet made a fake documentary claiming the existence of mermaids. Twice.