› added 3 years ago

202

TIL that killer whales are actually dolphins

Read more animals.mom.com

via reddit.com

yQbg8 TIL of Pheasant Island, which for over 350 years switches countries every six months between Spain and France
YpgK7 TIL: Aleksandr Karelin, the greatest Greco-Roman wrestler of all time, who won 3 Olympic golds, 12 European Championships and 9 World Championships. His PhD was devoted to countermeasures against suplex throws. He suffered 2 losses, one of which was against a Wyomingite farmer who wrestled cows.
69Vom TIL the first internationally available game to be released for the Nintendo Wii was not "Super Mario Galaxy" or "Wii Sports", but "Barnyard", a game based on the animated children's movie of the same name.
epn74 TIL in 2006, a mother and son were convicted of trying to extort money from Cracker Barrel by claiming they found a dead mouse in her soup. Charges were filed after a necropsy showed the mouse had no soup in its lungs and had not been cooked, signs that it was dropped into the soup after its death.
KYVER TIL Photuris beetles are the femme fatale of lightning bugs, refers to a behavior engaging in aggressive mimicry, imitating the light signals of other firefly species females to attract mates but Photuris beetles use it to attract, kill and eat the unsuspecting males of those other species.