› added 7 years ago

214

TIL that humans can detect individuals that are blood-related kin through the sense of smell (Olfaction). This is thought to be an evolved defense against incest.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

0wp65 TIL In 2002, after performing a full live set, Dream Theater did an encore cover of Metallica's "Master of Puppets." No, not the song. The entire album.
b6WY9 TIL of Bridget Cleary, an Irish woman who was burned to death by her husband on suspicion of her being a fairy changeling
pW48 TIL That Thomas Edison offered Nikola Tesla a $50,000 (Roughly 1,000,000 today) bonus if he could improve his dynamo design. Edison refused to pay him claiming it was a joke. Tesla quit immediately.
b9VXZ TIL That one of the founders of Whataburger was a pilot and designed the buildings as such so that he would be able to spot his own establishments when in the air. He later died in a private plane crash
d8Vr7 TIL a French woman, Marie Belmont-Gobert, hid a British soldier in a cramped cupboard in her house from Jan 1915 to the end of WWI in 1918, despite German officers living in her home and socialising in the room the cupboard was in. She received an OBE post-war. Cupboard is in museum in U.K.