› added 9 years ago

277

TIL George Washington said he’d never set foot in London again, so when Virginia gifted a statue of the president to Great Britain they also sent dirt from Virginia to put under the statue.

Read more golondon.about.com

via reddit.com

ANle4 TIL: Sperm whales’ clicks are powerful enough to penetrate and vibrate your entire body to death.
mxY8o A new study published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment suggests that leopards in Mumbai, the world’s sixth most-populated city, may save human lives by feeding on feral dogs. Feral dogs are a major health issue in India, where they are the leading cause of rabies deaths.
DQ7me TIL after people are diagnosed with heart disease, less than 60 percent of all patients take a statin.
PYvpL TIL the Pharma company Allergan gave a number of their patents to a Native American tribe (and licensed the patents back to themselves) so that the tribe could asset "sovereign immunity" and prevent the patents from being invalidated.
MEwA TIL Mick “Crocodile” Dundee was based on an actual person who survived 56 days in crocodile infested outback Australia. He died in a police shootout after he killed a cop while high on amphetamines.