› added 6 years ago

63

TIL: Venus Flytraps are native to North and South Carolina

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

Z8O14 TIL that in Feb 2009, the Submarines 'HMS Vangaurd' and 'Le Troimphant' collided in the Atlantic Ocean as neither saw the other on aproach. Both submarines had nuclear weapons on board.
4k8jR TIL Paul McCartney was 14 years old when he wrote "When I'm Sixty Four." When later recorded, it was performed in a lower key and sped up so his voice would sound younger.
R5gd9 TIL of the Ancient Greek politician Hyperbolus, who put forward a motion for ostracism (exile) in an attempt to have one of the two more popular politicians ostracized. Instead, the two factions put aside their differences and voted to ostracize Hyperbolus. He was the last Athenian to be ostracized.
ljoa TIL “thirty-nine places of pi suffice for computing the circumference of a circle girdling the known universe with an error no greater than the radius of a hydrogen atom.”
LkP6m TIL that your voice can change during different phases of the menstrual cycle due to the link between hormone levels and vocal cord functions.