› added 1 year ago

62

TIL prior to 2007, no one had ever seen an echidna ejaculate.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

d8wyZ TIL That Charles Barkley once had ice thrown on him at a club by another patron. Barkley responded by throwing the patron out a window. When the judge asked Barkley if he had any regrets, Barkley replied, “Yeah I regret we were on the first floor.”
16bRO TIL that a father in Dubai forcibly stopped lifeguards from rescuing his drowning daughter because he believed it would “dishonor” her to be touched by male strangers.
neZ7W TIL baseball has a “golden ticket” that gives free admission to any game. It’s given to players after 8 years in the major leagues, people who have worked for a team for 25 years, and other VIPs. NASA astronauts, returning Vietnam POWs, and the the 1979 hostages in Iran were all given one.
KYARR TIL Twentieth Century-Fox used its profits from its film Star Wars to buy the Pebble Beach Golf Course in May 1979.
OG9X4 TIL nearly 8 in 10 Americans grew up with at least 1 sibling, making siblings a more ubiquitous presence in early life than fathers.