› added 7 months ago

113

TIL Siblings can get completely different results (e.g., one 30% Irish and another 50% Irish) from DNA ancestry tests, even though they share the same parents, due to genetic recombination.

Read more thetech.org

via reddit.com

Wk8dd TIL that Burt Ward, who played Robin in the 1966-1969 Batman T.V. series, attracted attention from the Catholic League of Decency for his below-the-belt bulge and the studio actually had him taking penis medication that would “shrink” him up.
oRODo TIL that the youngest person to summit Mount Everest was just 13 years old while the oldest person to summit was 80 years old.
4XV4b TIL 'Karate Kid' villain Billy Zabka is still best friends with the Cobra Kais
7EZM TIL Cliff Burton won a cards game and chose to sleep in Kirk Hammett’s bunk. The following morning’s tour bus accident left Burton the only victim.
RW76 TIL The Unabomber was so smart that for his PHD thesis he solved a math problem that even his own math professor couldn’t solve. Another math professor said of his thesis “I’d guess that only 10 or 12 people in the country could understand or appreciate it.”