› added 2 months ago

16

TIL a chicken named Mike lived for 18 months without a head after a botched beheading in 1945

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

YGMP TIL that Fred Smith, the founder of FedEx wrote an economics paper on the need for reliable overnight delivery in the information age, which the professor gave a ‘C’, that paper now sits on display at the FedEx world headquarters.
gMalA TIL new data shows that black kids who have just one black teacher in 3rd thru 5th grades decreased their chances of dropping out by 39%
R7WPQ TIL that Germany has the only tree in the world with its own mailing address. It's known as the Bridegroom Oak, and it receives about 1000 letters per year from singles looking for love. Anyone can take letters from the tree and respond. They estimate that it's responsible for over 100 marriages.
oR8OY TIL that humans show a systematic aurofacial asymmetry, meaning that the eyes, nose and mouth are displaced to the left with respect to the midplane between the ears
4XVRg TIL that the human eye is different from most animals in that we have a large sclera -- the white part of the eye. It's theorized that we evolved this so we could silently communicate where we are looking.