› added 2 months ago

19

TIL there are funeral services for animals, and you can choose whether you want the Christian or Buddhism style of the funeral

Read more youtu.be

via reddit.com

lger TIL motor neuron disease has been on the increase for over ten years, and scientists think pesticides, pollutants and paints are to blame.
xVlWg TIL about the "Impossible Literacy Test of 1964" that was given in Louisiana to those who wanted to vote. The test is to be taken in less than 10 minutes, the questions were intentionally vague and obtuse and if you failed, you couldn't vote. It was intentionally used to disenfranchise voters.
QJ1Op TIL cnn has a pre recorded footage known as the "turner doomsday video" which is suppose to air as soon as the end of the world happens. it was recorded around the time ted turner was still the news anchor for cnn around 1980.
71RO TIL a British supercentenarian died last year. Two months before his death, he told newspapers that he drank an elixir given to him by a doctor in Mumbai before WWI and was told, “drink this and you’ll live forever.”
X0gEQ TIL, that there is a sea slug species where one sexual partner injects the other one it's prostate fluid to it's head.