› added 7 years ago

226

TIL that actor Sir Anthony Hopkins was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome only 10 years ago.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

rBjw TIL that sometimes when we scratch one part of our body we can feel in another point somewhere else, and this is called Referred Itch
MeGNm TIL that in 1990, a pilot was partially sucked out of his plane when the windscreen failed. The cabin crew couldn't pull him back in so he dangled outside the plane for 20 minutes until the copilot landed the plane. The pilot made a full recovery.
QN4aa TIL of Terrible Ted, a bear that fought in commercially promoted wrestling matches against humans from the 50s through the 70s.
5VPAQ TIL, that a 1-second-long, 1-watt sound wave in water, weighs about 0.1 milligrams. The weight of sound waves is created by it's interactions with gravity.
gky9 TIL there’s a version of “The Tortoise and the Hare” where everyone dies in a forest fire because the tortoise, having won the race and therefore seen as the fastest, is given the job of warning everyone.