› added 13 years ago

132

TIL Everyone’s brain starts out as female. The brain of males begins to become masculinized around eight weeks after conception by the male hormone testosterone.

Read more facts.randomhistory.com

via reddit.com

g9eL TIL that in 1998 a US military jet cut the cables of a cable car in Italy killing 20 people. No one was convicted. [Possibly NSFW]
PxaZ TIL that six generations of inbreeding spanning the years 1800 to 1960 caused an isolated population of humans living in the hills of Kentucky to become blue-skinned. One these people - Dennis Stacy - had the same great-great grandfather on both his mother’s and father’s side.
oaML TIL of a phenomenon, called Coffin Birth, where fetuses are naturally “birthed” by their recently deceased mothers.
GYpxG TIL that Hiram Revels, the first-ever black US senator, occupied the Senate seat whose previous occupant was Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America.
aJLy TIL in 1975 P&G released the super-absorbent and long-lasting ‘Rely’ Tampon brand, marketed under the tagline “It Even Absorbs the Worry.” However, because women left the tampon in so long, the bloody tampon was perfect environment to culture bacteria, causing an epidemic of Toxic Shock Syndrome.