› added 12 years ago

90

TIL that the Apollo 17 ‘Blue Marble’ photograph originally had the south pole at the top, and was inverted to conform to the traditional view of 'north’ being 'up’.

Read more techrepublic.com

via reddit.com

woVAY TIL when a cockroach touches a human it runs to safety to clean itself.
Rek9 TIL Frankenstein author Mary Shelley kept her dead husband’s heart and carried it with her for almost 30 years until she died in 1851. It was found in a desk drawer a year later, wrapped in a copy of one of his final poems.
N66J TIL the daughter of Steve Irwin endorsed SeaWorld after Blackfish was released
eplj6 TIL that Slovakia also invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, the same day as Nazi Germany.
R5Z0a TIL in the 1940s, Dr. John C. Cutler led US-funded syphilis experiments in Guatemala, secretly infecting prisoners and patients, including a terminally ill woman, to study penicillin. Justified as "for the greater good," it remained hidden until 2010 when the US government issued a formal apology.