› added 9 years ago

432

TIL of the universe’s coldest known star, WISE 1828+2650; It’s at room temperature

Read more nasa.gov

via reddit.com

0wYyR TIL that goats are completely immune to poison ivy, oak, and sumac. They love the stuff and can eat several pounds a day.
W707B TIL A Japanese engineer survived both the Hiroshima & Nagasaki nuclear bombs. During the Hiroshima blast, he threw himself into a ditch just 3 kilometers from ground 0. Three days later, his boss in Nagasaki was calling him crazy for saying that a bomb had destroyed Hiroshima when Nakazaki was hit.
97YB TIL that the entire staff of Australian radio station Triple J went on strike to protest the censoring of the N.W.A song ‘Fuck tha Police". As one final protest before they left they put N.W.A’s 'Express Yourself’ on repeat. It played for 24 hours straight.
69mYZ TIL that Daniel Stern, who played Marv in Home Alone, is the voice of adult Kevin Arnold in The Wonder Years
ANgBo TIL that in Indonesia, catfish are used to clean septic tanks