› added 11 years ago

285

TIL Reindeer is the only mammal that can see UV light.

Read more ucl.ac.uk

via reddit.com

E1w4d TIL that Mike Patton lead singer of the band Faith No More was the voice for all the screams and howls of the infected in the Will Smith movie I Am Legend
loGQA TIL about Jose Castellanos Contreras, a Salvodoran army colonel and diplomat, who, while working as El Salvador's Consul General for Geneva during WWII, helped save up to 40,000 Jews and Central Europeans from the Nazis by secretly issuing thousands of "certificates of Salvadoran citizenship"
PYYNe TIL 'Octopusues' is the grammatically correct plural for more than one octopus
9YBPD TIL In 2001, the Mossad dispatched undercover agents in London to monitor a top Syrian official. On the first day of his visit, one team followed him, while another broke into his hotel room and hacked his laptop. In 2007, Israel would launch a night time airstrike against a Syrian nuclear actor.
E1ZrX TIL on it's last flight one SR-71 Blackbird broke four world speed records. The trip from L.A. to D.C. was completed in a cool 64 minutes 20 seconds. The plane landed at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and has never flown again.