› added 10 years ago

242

TIL Men who do not have chest hair are deficient in a particular androgen or male hormones

Read more ask.com

via reddit.com

E48X TIL there is one person in the world with “Syndrome X” which prevents normal aging. Brooke Greenberg is 20 and appears to be one year old.
e0x1J TIL about Alfred Russel Wallace, a young Welsh explorer who spent 4 years in Brazil, nearly blind after his glasses broke. While returning home the ship caught fire, destroying all his findings. He then went to Malaysia, collecting 127,000 specimens. In 1858 he conceived his own theory of evolution.
d8eMj TIL Rome has been nicknamed the Cocaine Capital of the World with €1,23 billion worth of cocaine seized in 3 police operations but it was all kept on the low key to protect the image of the eternal city.
Vowp TIL that Ayn Rand, the author of Atlas Shrugged, died while being mostly alone, stricken by poverty and sickness of post lung-cancer and relying on public welfare and assistance programs, such as Social Security and Medicare.
V1wm TIL that Cleopatra was Greek, not Egyptian