› added 7 years ago

121

TIL that the first man to survive a fall off of Niagara falls in a barrel died slipping on an orange peel

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

b9al4 Today I learned that non-spayed female ferrets will die if they don't have sex. They go into season and don't come out until they have mated, and the associated elevated oestrogen levels eventually cause anemia and death.
v1jJj TIL that Cambridge University Library has run out of room for its 9 million+ books and built a huge store to hold 4 million more. The first book they put in was Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Vg1m TIL Bee Gees’ Stayin’ Alive has close to 104 BPM and was used to provide the correct number of chest compressions when doing CPR
MkM0 TIL The terrier who played Eddie on Frasier was given up by his original family because he couldn’t be house trained, chewed on everything, and constantly escaped and climbed trees.
jN45j TIL that the German city of Augsburg was given a colony in present-day Venezuela called Klein-Venedig in the 1500s when the Habsburg emperor couldn't repay a loan back in cash