› added 2 years ago

157

TIL Joe Theismann and Alex Smith both suffered gruesome injuries to their right leg. The injuries occurred on the same date 33 years apart, on the same team, in the same city and on nearly identical parts of the field. The final score of both games was 23-21.

Read more deseret.com

via reddit.com

o6yL TIL breast milk contains sugars which aren’t digestible by human infants, but which serve as food for desirable gut bacteria
eL8E TIL that Wal-Mart used to routinely lock overnight workers in the store, often without a key-holding manager present and sometimes even chaining the fire escape shut
xVG5k TIL after the murder of his father, Genghis Khan went into poverty, even being enslaved at one point. It wasn’t until he was in his 50’s did he rise to power and become the Khan of Mongolia
Zw4B TIL that regardless of what service you get your weather information from, almost all of the data comes from the same place. NOAA has the only nationwide weather radar and operates the only weather satellites in the US. It freely distributes it’s information into the public domain.
ErgW TIL Margret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, said: “that abortion was the wrong way — no matter how early it was performed it was taking a life; that contraception was the better way, the safer way…because life had not yet begun.”