› added 10 years ago

101

TIL that More people download apps on Dec. 25 largely because more people receive new phones on that day than any other

Read more universityherald.com

via reddit.com

e0O74 TIL The US had to abandon construction of a border fort in New York State after realising that they'd accidentally built it on the Canadian side of the border. It was promptly nicknamed "Fort Blunder".
XKgj TIL of the brain-eating amoeba, which lives in fresh water and kills unsuspecting swimmers every year by entering their bodies through the nose and consuming their brain tissue.
Lpv TIL That men do NOT think about sex every seven seconds. In fact, it is impossible to accurately measure how often anyone thinks about anything.
kJByd TIL the Mediterranean Sea went into a cycle of partial or near complete drying-up from 5.96 to 5.33 million years ago, when the precursor of the Strait of Gibraltar closed off sealing the Sea off from the Atlantic Ocean. The period ended with a flood when the Atlantic reclaimed the basin.
JKoV TIL the late comedian Chris Farley was going to be the original voice of Shrek. He finished more than 80% of the voice recordings before he died. The recordings have never been released to the public.