› added 9 years ago

249

TIL as of 2014 only two artists have had their first two singles reach #1 and #2 on the Billboard charts: The Beatles and Iggy Azalea.

Read more billboard.com

via reddit.com

N7eXJ TIL Down syndrome is practically non-existent in Iceland. Since introducing the screening tests back in the early 2000s, nearly 100% of women whose fetus tested positive ended up terminating the pregnancy. It has resulted in Iceland having one of the lowest rates of Down syndrome in the world.
XE4wD TIL Paleontologist Dale Guthrie once happened upon a well preserved 36,000 year old bison frozen in ice. He and his team thawed it out and proceeded to eat it.
jNwnv TIL in 1985, Ryan White was refused re-entry to his school due to him having AIDS. 117 Parents and 50 teachers petitioned for his ban. People even cancelled their subscriptions as White was the paperboy and they believed they would be infected via newsprint.
xBro TIL a 12-year Harvard research study of 78,000 women found that the ones who drank milk three times a day broke more bones than women who barely drank milk.
oRDDY TIL There is only one Woman to have received the Medal of Honor, Mary Edwards Walker. It was rescinded in 1917 because she was a civilian but reinstated in 1977.