› added 3 years ago

231

TIL Some Ancient Pacific Islanders explored the seas using their testicles as a navigational tool.

Read more melmagazine.com

via reddit.com

rpOd TIL MMA fighter Matt Hamill noticed a car speeding down the wrong side of the highway and turned his car around, gave chase and safely forced the car to a grassy area. He then punched out a window to stop the car, potentially saving the child passenger and the inebriated mother’s lives.
rNYle TIL That there was a plan to overthrow FDR by top business leaders when he first got elected because of his New Deal.
ADwna TIL that asbestos can be found in rocks and soil all over the world and has been used for over 4,500 years by our ancestors for various purposes. But the large scale asbestos industry started with the mining of asbestos in Quebec, Canada in the 1870's.
bEDN TIL that a 2006 study concluded that prehistoric predators had excellent vision, surpassing modern birds of prey. Compared to a bald eagle (whose vision is 4x better than ours), Tyrannosaurus rex had eyes that were 13x as precise as a human’s eyesight, meaning it could see prey from 6 km away.
ZDG TIL Nintendo ran a chain of sex hotels in the ‘50s and '60s.