› added 3 years ago

101

TIL the Irish Guards have had an Irish Wolfhound as a mascot since 1902. The current one is called Seamus

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

aeLL TIL that Earth is only “marginally” habitable. Some of the Earth-like might potentially be far more hospitable for life than Earth is.
m4bY TIL a German U-boat sank due to a toilet malfunction.
DVLD TIL in WWII the Germans used “anti-officer crooked picture bombs”: They left paintings on the wall, skewed to the side and rigged to explode when straightened.
8aPG4 TIL that one of the conspirators of Franz Ferdinand's assassination swallowed a cyanide pill and jumped into a nearby river after a failed attempt to kill Ferdinand. The cyanide pill was expired and only made him sick, and the river was only 10cm deep. He was detained seconds later by authorities.
8aLEb TIL that the patent for insulin was sold by the co-founders to the University of Toronto for $1 each. Their intention was that such an important medication should be affordable to all who need it. In the USA in 2016, patients were paying on average $450 per month for their prescriptions of insulin.