› added 8 years ago

202

TIL over the past few years the populations of wolves, lynxes, bears and wolverines in Europe have all been going up

Read more howtoconserve.org

via ift.tt

0wjY1 TIL, 146 cryogenically frozen people are buried in the desert waiting for science to resurrect them
Bgy7K Today I learned that Hans Christian Andersen based his story "The Emperor's New Clothes" on a folk tale about a king who is tricked by swindlers who claim to have made clothes that can't be seen by any man who isn't the son of the king's presumed father.
OGVN7 TIL That Not Everyone Has an Inner Monologue—or inner voice—that narrates your thoughts throughout the day
KBVB TIL The Areni-1 shoe is a 5,500-year-old leather shoe that was found in 2008 in near perfect condition. For perspective, the shoes are 400 years older than those found at Stonehenge, and 1,000 years older than those found at the Great Pyramid of Giza.
gMmy TIL doctors in the last decade have stopped removing the appendix during other surgical procedures as a routine precaution, because it can be successfully transplanted into the urinary tract to rebuild a sphincter muscle and reconstruct a functional bladder