› added 12 years ago

224

TIL penguins were once introduced in Norway. One of them was promptly shot by a Norwegian matron who claimed it was a freak of nature that had invaded her yard.

Read more sorpolen2011.npolar.no

via reddit.com

4XRMw TIL that as of 2018 most of the early cryonics companies that froze dead bodies for future revival had gone out of business, and their stored corpses have been thawed and disposed of.
JYobj TIL in 2016, a flight was delayed because a passenger grew concerned and alerted the authorities about the suspicious scribbles of her curly, dark-haired seatmate. Upon inspection, it turned out that the seatmate was an Italian, who was a UPenn economics professor solving differential equations.
y6Kl TIL That in October 2015 a dog named Trigger shot his owner in the foot.
loVYa TIL, a Canadian sports executive named Jack Hamilton identified 136 different types of wood in a guessing competition?
awvaM Pediatricians in the UK have finally answered one of life’s grand riddles: Just how long would it take for a Lego toy accidentally swallowed by someone to gracefully make its way back out? It is approximately 1.71 days.