› added 3 years ago

133

TIL about Marsey Borders, the "Dust Lady" photographed in the aftermath of 9/11.

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

MePwb TIL Libyan dictator Gaddafi's son, Al-Saadi Gaddafi, had a football "career". Announcers were only allowed to mention his name and the military prevented any protests. 'Recruited' into Serie A had one substitute appearance before failing a drug test. He was considered "twice as slow as slow itself."
l69V TIL, during a 1998 renovation of Benjamin Franklin’s house, the bones of 10 people (6 of them children) were found in a windowless room in the basement.
w0m1 TIL people used to be given malaria to cure syphilis. The syphilis was unable to survive the high temperature from the malaria induced fever.
7rvyr Today I learned about the "Wood Wide Web", which is how trees not only "communicate" information to one another, but also share nutrients and they can even sabotage each other via this network of roots and fungi.
kJ1v1 TIL that our solar system is not a solar system. It's a planetary system NAMED the solar system. The name comes from our sun.