› added 11 years ago

207

TIL that the US ranks 47th in the world in Freedom of Press

Read more nationsonline.org

via reddit.com

GDEg TIL on 5 March 1945, a Gurkha soldier in the British army calmly stood up in open sight and killed a sniper pinning down his company before going on to clear 5 enemy bunkers, single-handedly, all whilst under heavy fire.
xV0yo TIL that there is a turle, named Hope, who was born with an exposed heart. Her case is very unique and has never been seen in a turtle before.
VBYRD TIL There is a sushi chef in Tokyo that makes individual pieces of sushi with a single grain of rice
jN5XE TIL The world’s first fully-trained paramedics was made up of exclusively young Black men in the 1960s
6Epo8 TIL that the world’s smallest wasp is smaller than an amoeba. The wasp, Megaphragma mymaripenne - complete with eyes, brain, wings, muscles, guts and genitals is only about 200 micrometres long. Their average lifespan at adulthood is 5 days and they lay eggs in the eggs of thrips.