› added 8 years ago

443

TIL that some monkeys and chimpanzees have officially entered the stone age

Read more bbc.com

via ift.tt

4XaGX TIL in a traffic stop, Arizona officials seized illegal drugs with a street value of over $1M, then got a search warrant for the driver's property which included a former KFC restaurant. In the KFC floor, they found a hole leading to a 590 ft tunnel where drugs were funneled from the Mexican side.
neyao TIL about beach theft, or the illegal removal of large quantities of sand from a beach leading to full or partial disappearance of the beach. In 2008 in Jamaica, someone stole approximately 500 truckloads of sand from a beach, effectively making it "disappear".
W70Dd TIL that during ww2 the Japanese had bombed the also un-contacted cousins of the Sentinelese people, the Jarawa people live nearby and they only established voluntary contact with outsiders in the 1990’s.
68Pm TIL North Korea has its own airline, which also happens to be the only 1 star rated airline according to Skytrax
mxWwv TIL - The soda Mountain Dew has been banned in over 100 countries for using a danferous chemical and was originally developed as a moonshine mixer.