› added 4 months ago

21

TIL the Lord Howe Island stick insect, once thought extinct due to rats from a shipwreck, was rediscovered in 2001 and successfully bred in captivity, saving the species from extinction.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

D1xXv TIL the first line in the first feature-length film with sound was, "Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet."
5O9B TIL Groomsman stand on the left of the bride so that in the event of a kidnapping they could defend the bride with a sword in their right hand.
b6jg0 TIL in 1878, the Loretto Chapel was constructed with a wooden spiral staircase of unusually masterful craftsmanship. No builder was officially credited for the staircase, but legends say that a mysterious carpenter arrived and built it overnight, then left without collecting pay.
XEMpk TIL that Mayim Bialik decided to get back into acting even after having already her PhD in neuroscience. Because by then, she was running out of health insurance.
eprZD TIL During the Cultural Revolution of 1960s China, the Forbidden City was renamed the “Palace of Blood and Tears” by the Red Guards.