› added 6 years ago

2331

Babies don't poop like they did in 1926, and, as it turns out, it might be a big concern.

Read more popsci.com

b9va7 TIL that deceased Tibetan Buddhists are given a “sky burial” in which the body is folded in half, walked to the burial site on someone’s back, and then dismembered and fed to vultures. There is no wood for a cremation, and the ground is too hard to dig due to the high altitude they live in.
PYmZO TIL there is an Asteroid Day with the purpose of raising asteroid awareness to protect the Earth. And it's today, the date of the Tunguska event.
OoKda TIL that Robert Stack was not the original host of Unsolved Mysteries but rather Raymond Burr who was subsequently followed by Karl Malden who both hosted specials. Stack hosted the first regular season
awrnL TIL That there is a monument in Russia dedicated to lab mice who's lives have been sacrificed to further science: The Monument to the Laboratory Mouse
lbAB TIL that in 480 BC, the Persians’ bridges were destroyed by storms as they invaded Greece. King Xerxes then ordered his men to give the sea three hundred whip lashes, to throw fetters into it and to burn it with red hot irons. Meanwhile, the punishers were to shout “you are a turbid and briny river”