› added 11 years ago

55

TIL If African elephants become extinct, the savannah will become woodland

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

9YOG7 TIL that Patrick Gass, a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, had to be forcibly-removed from a U.S. Civil War recruiting station after he tried to enlist at age 91.
b9bMN TIL "Hollywood" became "Holywood" briefly, when Pope John Paul II made a visit to USA on September 1987.
YNNx TIL the Event Horizon Telescope not only took the first photos of a black hole, it’s powerful enough to count the stitches on a baseball 8,000 miles away.
lodRA TIL Children who suck their thumbs or bite their nails are less likely to have atopic sensitization (a reaction to common food or air born allergen) in childhood and adulthood.
0dg65 TIL about a firefighter who confessed to deliberately setting 30 fires so that he could earn overtime pay