› added 4 years ago

154

TIL Humans Are Currently Causing The Sixth Mass Extinction

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

Gl05 TIL “Friendstalker” was one of the early names considered for twitter.
donQ TIL of three teenagers from Tokelaou who on a drunken dare, stole a boat and got lost adrift on the Pacific Ocean to be found after 51 days. They had barely any food or water, no clothing, no fishing gear, no life vests, and no first-aid kit.
EgEmX TIL Canadian Physicians Can Now Prescribe Nature To Patients
7r7GM TIL about Janet Parker, the last person on record to die of smallpox. In 1978, Parker worked above a U.K. research laboratory conducting experiments with the pathogen. Today smallpox is officially held at only two places in the world, the CDC in the U.S. and the Vector Institute in Russia.
r07x TIL in 1986 to bypass Japanese censorship laws on depictions of sexual intercourse Toshio Maeda created “tentacle sex” leading to the large number of works today with tentacles inplace of male genitals.