› added 1 year ago

50

TIL that yawning is linked to empathy among primates, and that even fish and birds can yawn.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

Wp9N TIL that only 5 human beings remain alive who were born in the 1800s.
rR74x TIL: There is a mine in Canada buried and frozen with left over arsenic dust to kill every person in the world.
EEJp TIL Cyrus the Great of the Persian Empire created the first declaration of human rights and is honorably mentioned in the Bible, Jewish Bible (Tanakh), and Quran.
kOYv4 TIL Bulimia is so rare outside of western countries that the first recorded case in India resulted in a scientific publication
woV1o TIL of Alice Nutter, an English woman who was hanged after a 9 year old accused her of being a witch