› added 6 years ago

512

TIL Admiral Jeremiah Denton Jr. used his eyes to blink the word "TORTURE" using Morse Code during his captivity in Vietnam.

Read more youtu.be

via reddit.com

OGek7 TIL researchers strapped cameras to 60 outdoor house cats and found they killed on average 2+ animals per week
ARl7 TIL Hitler didn’t hate ALL the Jews. He protected one of them and named him “the noble Jew”.
eZaD TIL in ancient Egypt, men could take time off of work to care for menstruating wives and daughters.
9YaLB TIL Wiz Khalifa sparked outrage in 2017 during a visit to Pablo Escobar's grave when he posted pictures of flowers at the grave's headstone. Medellin’s mayor, Federico Gutierrez, called the rapper disrespectful saying he should have brought flowers to the victims of Escobar's violence instead.
OoXK4 TIL that falcons are more closely related to parrots and songbirds than they are to hawks.