› added 2 years ago

75

TIL that Taylor Lautner's wife is also named Taylor Lautner

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

kOpbm TIL that panthers are not their own species, but rather " melanistic colour variant of any Panthera, particularly of the leopard (P. pardus) in Asia and Africa, and the jaguar (P. onca) in the Americas."
wLQRM TIL In the 1880’s, the Old Faithful geyser would be used to launder clothes. Dirty clothes would be placed in the crater and after an eruption, they were “ ejected thoroughly washed”
WkLdo TIL when John Connally died in 1993, there was a petition to recover the fragments of the bullet that hit him in Kennedy's assassination, hoping to disprove the single bullet theory. Department of justice replied that it would approve if Connally's family gave permission, which they refused to give.
0lQ1 TIL: The City of Sandy, Oregon, Built a Municipal Owned Gigabit (1,000 MBPS) Fiber Network. Cost is $60/month for 1 GBPS Speeds and Unlimited Data. The City is Located 30 Miles East of Portland.
b9Roj TIL that the taxonomic name for the endangered western lowland gorilla is Gorilla gorilla gorilla