› added 11 years ago

384

TIL all polar bears are Irish: they’re descended from brown bears that lived in Ireland over 20-to-30,000 years ago.

Read more npr.org

via reddit.com

5nm8 TIL that Mark Spitz jokingly told the 1972 Russian Olympic men’s swim team that mustaches increased speed in the water. The next year, every Russian sported one.
l77R5 TIL that the Dodge Stealth and the Mitsubishi 3000GT are essentially the same car. The Dodge Stealth is an example of rebadging or badge engineering: that is, a manufacturer creates a distinct automobile by applying a new badge or trademark to an existing product line.
9Y4Rp TIL, The Macaw species that inspired the movie 'Rio' is now extinct in the wild
D15Vp TIL for every bird killed by a windmill around 1700 are killed by cars.
8bN4 TIL: Palindrome is not a palindrome, but it is a semordnilap, which is a word that means something different backwards. Semordnilap backwards is palindromes.