› added 11 years ago

271

TIL the average American spends 33% of their waking hours listening to music

Read more spin.com

via reddit.com

EdJd TIL that in when David Reimer was born in 1965, his doctor had accidentally burned off his penis during a failed circumcision. His family, under the guidance of Dr. John Money, decided to raise him as a girl, to prove that nurture, and not nature, defines sexual identity. It failed
a86yy TIL the constellation Crux was once high enough to be visible to the ancient Greeks. Precession (the wobbling of Earth's axis) has lowered it
8kJb TIL scientists have found that the older a father is when his child is born, the uglier the child tends to be. However, a child with an older father is more likely to live longer than a child of with a young father.
ANAXg TIL A man who saw John Wilkes Booth shoot Lincoln was on a TV Game Show
1jJV TIL a 4,500 yo Construction Logbook of the Great Pyramid was Found in 2013. It reports on the making and shipping of limestone blocks and the everyday life of workers.