› added 7 years ago

131

TIL modern day Samaritans follow Samaritanism which they believe to be the original, unchanged version of Judaism.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

o6B8 TIL Mongooses, honey badgers, hedgehogs, and pigs are the only mammals with a natural immunity to snake venom.
LkmO9 TIL that Canada signed the wrong line on the Japanese instrument of surrender at the end of WW2
Y7D0G TIL - The longest word in any language is the chemical name for the protein Titin, also known as connectin, which has 189,819 letters? The word takes over three hours to pronounce in its entirety, and it would take more than 2,000 pages to write it out by hand.
Brknd TIL: Most social media negatively impact the mental health of teenagers, particular girls. This has led to increasing suicide rates and depression. The worst offender found is Instagram in 2017 and institutions have tried have a warning label on images that have been Photoshopped or edited.
KQMB TIL In Idaho, if a person’s perjury leads to the execution of an innocent person, the witness is then subject to the death penalty as well.