› added 11 years ago

148

TIL that after the extinction of the dinosaurs, there was a turtle that was the size of a car and could eat crocodiles.

Read more news.discovery.com

via reddit.com

om7r TIL Queen Victoria Eased The Discomfort Of Her Menstrual Cramps By Having Her Doctor Supply Her With Marijuana.
kJOVE TIL after the catastrophic Lisbon Earthquake of 1755, the city was rebuilt with the world's first anti-seismic architecture. All buildings were restricted in height, poles were driven into the riverbed to reinforce, and streets were made into wide boulevards.
x6Xlo TIL the UK was the number 1 European recipient of aid from the Marshall Plan, receiving $2.7 billion
POje TIL that Bridgetown, Barbados is the only city outside of North America that George Washington visited (with his brother Lawrence to treat his Tuberculosis). While there, 19 year-old George survived Smallpox, giving him immunity to the disease which later killed so many of his Revolutionary solders.
yayX TIL the best female sniper of all time was a 24 year-old Russian WWII soldier named Lyudmila Pavlichenko. She left university in Ukraine during her senior year to begin “hunting Nazis” after the Third Reich invaded the country.