› added 3 years ago

150

TIL that the biggest known underground city on earth was found in Mardin, Turkey

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

jNE6N TIL drinking alcohol makes you want to pee because for every 200 millilitres of beer you drink, your kidneys generate 320 millilitres of urine. “Breaking The Seal” is real.
nWXA7 TIL that Australia is wider than the moon!!!
jDAE TIL that Jim Fixx, the man credited with starting the fitness revolution and demonstrating the health benefits of jogging, died of a heart attack while jogging.
ANojw TIL: William Duer, a member of George Washington's inner circle was involved in the first American Insider Trading scandal. Using his knowledge of upcoming Treasury actions, he borrowed and took money from the treasury to leverage bond bets. The market then crashed and Hamilton had to rescue it.
BgoPd TIL: The construction of the Cologne Cathedral (Kölner Dom) began in 1248 and wasn’t completed until 1880—taking over 630 years due to centuries-long pauses, changing styles, and revived interest in Gothic architecture centuries after it started