› added 5 days ago

1

TIL about ‘The 9 Nanas,’ a group of women who secretly met at 4am for 30 years to anonymously help people in need, sending care packages with pound cake and notes saying ‘Somebody loves you.’

Read more dailygood.org

via reddit.com

P9VJ TIL when asked how her prison stay was going, Martha Stewart replied “My nickname is M Diddy”
JPZv TIL that a 19th century surgeon once tried to amputate a patient’s leg in under 150 seconds. In his haste, he also amputated his assistant’s fingers and slashed through the coat of a spectator. Both the patient and the assistant died of gangrene, and the spectator dropped dead of fright.
X0nKR TIL that 70's teen heartthrob Robby Benson is also a composer and wrote the song "We Are Not Alone" performed by Karla DeVito on the soundtrack of the 1985 John Hughes film The Breakfast Club.
R77El And what really makes curly hair different than straight hair?
0voA TIL that dogs align themselves with the earth’s magnetic field when pooping. Raw indicates that dogs not only prefer north-south direction, but at the same time they also avoid east-west direction.