› added 11 years ago

264

TIL: Jews make up 62% of religious hate crime victims in the United States.

Read more fbi.gov

via reddit.com

KYLew TIL that the Tetrahymena thermophila, a single-celled ciliated unicellular eukaryote, has 7 different sexes. Any two different sexes can mate and produce offspring, and the sex of the offspring can be any of the 7 different types. This allows for 21 different mating combinations.
RxQQ TIL a group of firefighters buried themselves to survive a dangerous wildfire, then adopted a black bear cub who also survived and making him the real “Smokey the Bear.”
QN0mX TIL - Wayne Gretzky went undrafted
r8X4 TIL Lucy was a chimp who was raised as a human. She was forced back into the wild at the age of 12 when she was more human than ape. A year later, her remains were found with her skin, hands, and feet taken by poachers. It is believe she openly approached them due to her friendliness towards humans.
M69m TIL in a small town in County Cork, Ireland, a monument stands in appreciation to the American Choctaw Indian Tribe. Although impoverished, shortly after being forced to walk the Trail of Tears, the tribe somehow gathered $170 to send to Ireland for famine relief in 1847.