› added 7 years ago

214

TIL of Steller's Sea Cow, a recently extinct giant manatee that weighed between 4,000-11,000 kg

Read more bbc.com

via reddit.com

E1ZrX TIL on it's last flight one SR-71 Blackbird broke four world speed records. The trip from L.A. to D.C. was completed in a cool 64 minutes 20 seconds. The plane landed at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and has never flown again.
4XJXb TIL the most humane and least painful way to kill a whale is by strapping a bomb to it's head, because everything else would be to slow and painful, as they are so massive.
v94L TIL during WW2 Nazi German forces designed explosive laden chocolate bars for Winston Churchill knowing his weakness for them, believing that it’d be an easy way to kill him. They also made explosive laden coal pieces, thermos flasks and mess tins among many others. An alert MI5 foiled these plans.
GYDKJ TIL There is a Nigerian floating village of nearly 100,000 people that is self-sufficient and self-policing: There's electricity, hotels, schools, and restaurants fully independent of the mainland
6AQW TIL that in 2001 a man died from injuries caused by a shooting in 1966; his death was ruled a homicide, despite it occurring 35 years after the death of the shooter.