› added 9 months ago

40

TIL that there is an annual World Dog Surfing Championships

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

VZoZ TIL during WW2 a Soviet Airforce lieutenant who intentionally did not open his parachute survived a fall from the plane of approximately 7,000 meters (23,000 feet)
looQA TIL the original RoboCop received an X rating from the Motion Picture Association for extreme violence. The movie was recut and resubmitted 11 more times before it was granted an R rating.
rR45o TIL the Michelin Man’s ‘real’ name is Bibendum, and the reason he’s white is because he was created before carbon was added as a preservative and a strengthener to the basic rubber material. Before 1912, tyres were a gray-white or light and translucent-beige colour.
0w0ZR TIL the awesomely huge Saturn-5 rockets on the Apollo program hauled over six million pounds of mass into space - that's 2.75M kilos, or 3,000 tons.
9wJV6 TIL The native population of the entire continent of Europe is shrinking with no country having a fertility rate at replacement level (2.1 children per woman). France has the highest at 1.79 but all the other most populous Euro countries have rates of between 1.15 and 1.6.