› added 8 years ago

370

TIL there is a mine in Pennsylvania that has been on fire since 1962, and is expected to burn for another 250 years minimum.

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

e0YeJ TIL: Snails burrow under the leaves and soil and hibernate. Their heart rate slows to where it hardly beats at all, and the snail's blood contains chemicals that prevent it from freezing, similar to many insects and other invertebrates, and even frogs and other animals.
Oov8g TIL stunt performer and Jack-Ass star, Steve-O was born in Wimbledon, London
8a0rb TIL that a liter of surface seawater typically contains 100 billion viruses, most of them “unidentified and uncharacterized”
epmAL TIL actor Henry Winkler did not actually know how to ride a motorcycle while starring on "Happy Days".
9YRxD TIL that in 1954, the French was soundly defeated by the Vietnamese at Dien Bien Phu. That was the first time a non-European colony defeated a modern Western occupier in a pitched battle. The victory then fuelled the independence movements in other colonies, like Algeria