› added 2 years ago

61

TIL the actress/journalist Lisa Lu Yan is the only person who is a member of both the 87 member Hollywood Foreign Press Association that awards the Golden Globes and the 9,900+ member Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that awards the Oscars.

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

E1Jew TIL that India installed the world's highest public telephone booth on the 20,000-foot Siachen Glacier in the Himalayas, so soldiers could phone home.
AdM7 TIL in 2014, a 5 year old boy found a security exploit to bypass the account restrictions on the Xbox One by hitting the space bar a bunch of times.
R5wvl TIL killer whales are the second most widely-distributed mammal on Earth (after humans)
kOmdE TIL: Brazil forbids anyone to visit the island "Ilha da Queimada Grande" without a special permit. It's crawling with the endangered Golden Lancehead Vipers and its venom is so strong it can melt human flesh. Poachers visit the island because specimens can fetch $10-30K on the black market.
e0VND TIL Small penises where consonant with Greek ideals of male beauty, while big penises were considered vulgar