› added 7 years ago

196

TIL that depictions of knights fighting snails were common in medieval texts. And no one really knows why.

Read more smithsonianmag.com

via reddit.com

Z8yQv TIL whilst working as a marine-biology teacher in 1986, Stephen Hillenburg was asked to create an educational comic about anthropomorphised sea life. He later adapted the characters within it, such as "Bob the Sponge", into one of the most popular and longest-running children's series of all time.
lvxB TIL a Buddhist monk left a note with instructions on how his body should be handled after death, once his body was exhumed in 2002 after 80 years it was in perfect condition.
j6jBN TIL that All of Earth's water—including oceans, icecaps and glaciers, lakes, rivers, groundwater, and water in the atmosphere—equals ~326 quintillion gallons (326,000,000,000,000,000,000). Of that, a tiny fraction, 37.5 quadrillion gallons, is in the atmosphere above us as water vapor.
WRvo TIL that a single type of bacteria may have once wiped out over 90% of earth’s lifeforms.
VMZyQ TIL that armadillo shells can deflect bullets