› added 10 years ago

144

TIL Venus spins the opposite direction as the other planets in our solar system and may have been a drifting planet we “adopted”.

Read more solarsystem.nasa.gov

via reddit.com

l7lMA TIL a grieving mother from India had twins through surrogacy using her dead son's semen.
l78a5 TIL Quaternary Twins are when two babies are both cousins and genetically siblings. This happens when two identical sisters have children with two identical brothers.
69vOw TIL It took until 2015 for Disney to ban smoking from appearing in any of their movies
BgBbL TIL that the remains of the Vietnam War’s representative at America’s Tomb of the Unknown were finally identified 14 years after he was first entombed.
1o6D TIL that Vikings liked to be clean and sported “neat beards and reverse mullets”