› added 5 years ago

158

TIL that Girls have more DNA than boys. This is due to the X Chromosome having more base pairs than the Y Chromosome.

Read more web.ornl.gov

via reddit.com

QNPwL TIL what's inside a bowling ball.
1ed7 TIL that a man who was burned by the burning mat at Burning Man tried to sue the event’s organizers, claiming that they should have prevented him from walking into the fire.
7rGNZ TIL that Vaclav Bozdech, a soldier in WWII, found a puppy while on the run and planned to kill it so its barking would not alert the Germans. Unable to bring himself to do so, he took it with him, and the dog later helped find survivors of an air raid and saved Bozdech's life during the Cold War.
rRLjw TIL-"Sell or Starve" Act of 1877. After defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Congress attached, what the Sioux call the "sell or starve" rider, to the Indian Appropriations Act of 1876 that cut off all rations for the Sioux until they terminated hostilities and ceded the Black Hills to the US
LQOMd TIL that when Rihanna visited Senegal in February 2018, a religious collective protested her visit on the grounds that she was a member of the Illuminati and Freemasons.