› added 12 years ago

688

TIL that there is currently no anti-venom for coral snake bites because Pfizer didn’t find it profitable enough.

Read more chron.com

via reddit.com

99VB TIL that to attract jaguars to camera traps, field biologists have used the cologne ‘Calvin Klein’s Obssession for Men’. It is believed that the civetone in the cologne resembles a territorial marking.
VOGZ TIL that an artist designed a euthanasia roller coaster to take people’s lives “with elegance and euphoria”.
wymE TIL one man was caught twice on To Catch a Predator. The second time was less than a week after his court date for the first one. It was so soon that Chris Hansen recognized him.
XGgD TIL we can eat an entire bag of chips without knowing it because chips have a “vanishing caloric density” that is designed to trick our tongues/brain into thinking we haven’t actually eaten anything
9w0eM TIL during the 2010 Copiapó mining accident, 33 miners were trapped underground for 69 days after a cave-in, one of the miners created a makeshift radio from mining equipment, which allowed the miners to communicate with rescuers and maintain morale during the ordeal.