› added 2 years ago

295

TIL that there is a women's soccer team called Gotham FC

Read more gothamfc.com

via reddit.com

YdeZ TIL that we can drink alcohol because of a gene which most likely helped human ancestors make the most out of rotting, fermented fruit that fell onto the forest floor.
kOMd7 TIL the phrase “Bury the Hatchet” comes from a centuries-old practice seen among the Native American tribes of North America. Chiefs would meet and bury their weapons as a symbolic gesture of peace, “…buried so far into the earth so as to never be seen again.”
LQWDP TIL Chang Apana, the inspiration for Charlie Chan, once arrested 40 gamblers while armed only with a whip.
L0Dd TIL neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote about a man who after a night involving amphetamines, cocaine and PCP awoke with a extremely heightened sense of smell. Sacks revealed years later that it was in fact himself.
X0LPQ TIL that Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11) was nicknamed "Dr. Rendezvous" by other NASA astronauts. Aldrin—with an MIT PhD—knew that it was not a compliment.