› added 3 years ago

285

TIL the Aldabra Rail is the only example of an animal evolving twice. It evolved ~136,000 years ago, went extinct for ~35,000 years before re-evolving. The second evolution took roughly 20,000 years.

Read more smithsonianmag.com

via reddit.com

7rvgb TIL The song '(She's a) Brick House' was written after the band (The Commodores) couldn't come up with lyrics to the funky riff. The wife of the record's producer wrote the lyrics one night and the band loved it. She never got official credit but the band has publicly acknowledged her as the writer
XWkk TIL allegations of Walt Disney being anti-semetic are unfounded, as he regularly donated to Jewish charities, employed a large amount of Jewish employees, and none of his employees‍ ever accused him of making anti-semetic slurs
N7OvP TIL Coca Cola had to warn people not to drink the foul smelling liquid in their “MagiCan” promotion
7l0X TIL Chun-Li’s Energy Bar was planned to be shorter than everyone else’s in Street Fighter II, because a designer thought “women are not as strong”
wLXb6 TIL that there exists a single fungal colony in northern Michigan that stretches across 37 acres, weighs in at 21,000 lbs., and is around 1,500 years old