› added 8 years ago

167

TIL that woodpeckers have exceptionally long tongues that wrap around their brains.

Read more birdwatchingdaily.com

via reddit.com

VEnD TIL that washing your hair actually damages it and doctors usually don’t comment on it because its not medically harmful.
16rB7 TIL that the idea that people distribute poisoned candy on Halloween is a myth. There has never been a confirmed case of strangers injuring or killing children in this way, though some parents who have killed their children have tried to use it as a way to cover up their crimes.
kJvme TIL Aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont committed suicide because of the sight of airplanes flying over his city to bomb a nearby airport
wobkW TIL Earth's atmosphere is so thin, if you could walk straight upward at a normal walking pace, consciousness would be challenged after about 1 hour (@ 18k ft / 5,500 m).
m1bQx TIL Stanley Kubrick canceled Bill McKinney's audition to play the drill instructor in Full Metal Jacket after Kubrick professed an irrational fear of the actor. He was known for playing a psychopath in Deliverance, most memorably in a scene Kubrick called "the most terrifying scene ever put on film"