› added 10 years ago

84

TIL that unlike most sharks, the great white shark is warm-blooded.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

rRmow TIL that actor Adam Devine almost died in 1995, when he got run over by a 42 ton cement truck and went into a 2 week coma.
kOaQg TIL about 'Final Girl', a trope common in horror films in which several victims are killed one-by-one by a killer amid increasing terror, culminating in a climax in which the last surviving member of the group, usually female, either vanquishes the killer or escapes.
Zp0la TIL Apple is not only Samsung's biggest competitor, but also their biggest customer
OoME7 TIL in 1977 the mayor of Vulcan, WV requested foreign aid from the Soviet Union after two years of requests to the state about repairing the town's only bridge. Within an hour of a Russian journalist's arrival, the state agreed to help repair the bridge.
wLdPW TIL that after the release of the 1996 film Scream, which involved an anonymous killer calling and murdering his victims, Caller ID usage tripled in the United States.