› added 7 years ago

147

TIL a law school grad sued her alma mater, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, because she felt they made false statements that she'd be able to get a good job after acquiring a law degree from them. She lost the case.

Read more youtu.be

via reddit.com

1AgX TIL between 1970 and 1973, four Israeli fighter pilots translated The Hobbit from English to Hebrew to pass the time in an Egyptian prison, where they were held as POWs. The pilots’ translation was published commercially in 1977, and up until 2012 was considered the best Hebrew version of the book.
16OXV TIL Red-Eyed Tree Frogs use “Flash Coloration” which is when an organism displays certain colors at rest versus in motion. When the frog is startled, it can flash its bright red eyes, orange webbed feet, and blue/yellow lateral stripes, which startles predators and allows the frog to escape.
M710a TIL that when the submarine ARA San Juan disappeared in 2017, initial search crews picked up a banging noise at the search site, like tools hitting metal. After analyzing the audio, it was determined the sound was not from the submarine and was probably from a biological source.
WkZkL TIL that in 1950 US Navy sprayed thought to be harmless bacteria over the SF Bay Area, as an experiment on potential biological attack. It was followed by spikes in cases of very rare urinary infections and pneumonia. Between 1949 and 1969 open-air tests of biological agents were conducted 239 times
Y77Vv TIL that 83% of radiologists missed a gorilla that was inserted into images of the lungs during a nodule detection task.