› added 5 months ago

20

TIL: There is a strange phenomenon where chemical crystals can change spontaneously around the world, spreading like a virus, causing some pharmaceutical chemicals to no longer be able to be synthesized.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

eAon TIL that “giddyup” is a contraction of “get thee up”
JYQRj TIL that when a male honey bee climaxes during sex, his testicles explode and he dies.
YpmJr TIL about Brady Snakovsky, a 9 year old who was watching Live PD and noticed a K9 without a bulletproof vest on, so he made a go-fund-me with his mom to purchase a vest for the dog and instead raised over $80,000, which was used to create a legitimate charitable organization donating to police.
VyMp TIL more than 300 people died in a supermarket fire because the owners shut the doors in order to prevent people from fleeing with merchandise without paying for it.
OoyV1 TIL when George Lucas was searching for a studio to produce Star Wars in 1973, he approached Disney, who turned him down.