› added 2 years ago

318

TIL that dogs can also have ADHD

Read more wfla.com

via reddit.com

Rama TIL that the roof of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault features a distinctive piece of art, due to a Norwegian law that requires government funded projects exceeding a certain cost to include some form of artwork.
KXJw TIL Native Americans have been holding a National Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving since 1970
JYW9m TIL about John Howard Griffin, a journalist who in 1959 took anti-vitiligo drugs and spent 15 hours daily under an ultraviolet lamp to temporarily "become" a black man and travel through the South for six weeks.
X00Gr TIL 90% of sub-Saharan Africa's cultural heritage is in the possession of Western collections
yVg9l TIL In the oldest surviving law code, some of the laws include: "If a man knocks out the eye of another man, he shall weigh out half a mina of silver." and "If a man has cut off another man's foot, he is to pay ten shekels."