› added 10 years ago

116

TIL that the number of wrecks in the Bermuda Triangle is not extraordinary, given its size, location and the amount of traffic it receives.

Read more skepdic.com

via reddit.com

jNEbM TIL it’s believed that babies see the world upside down for the first few days while their brains learn how to flip the image received by the brain to be right side up.
6ENwX TIL that a poet enciphered a poem into the DNA sequence of an "unkillable" bacteria, ensuring that his words will survive billions of years, beyond the human race and the Earth itself
0deMp TIL there are IKEA stores in China, even as China is the source of cheap furniture the world over.
PYp1G TIL that after conquering Britain, the Nazis planned to deport all men aged between 17 and 45 to Germany to perform slave labour, while the remaining population was terrorised
oBYK8 TIL Some scholars believe smiling was an invention of the Middle Ages and point out that not all cultures today use smiles to show happiness. This challenges the popular notion of 7 universal facial expressions.