› added 4 years ago

71

TIL of the Killers of Eden, a group of Killer Whales, known for their cooperation with humans between 1840 - 1930 who would assist whalers in hunting baleen whales.

Read more killersofedcom

via reddit.com

kJ6x5 TIL The Apollo Mission Control Center at NASA Johnson Space Center was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1985. NASA and National Park Service restored it to the exact moment the 1969 Moon landing took place where controllers celebrated with their cigars
Erkx TIL Records show that 50,000 American soldiers deserted in the European theater during World War II
WkNN4 TIL in 1908, a meteor exploded over Siberia and flattened over 770 sq miles (2000 km) of forests. Though it disintegrated ~3 miles above Earth, it created an airburst with 1000x more energy than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Incredibly, only 3 people were killed.
d8OE TIL Andre Royo (Bubbles from The Wire) was so convincing as a drug addict on location, a real addict approached and gave him heroin, claiming he needed a fix more.
yQpPM TIL Yoda, of the Star Wars universe, uses sentences that follow the object-subject-verb pattern. This pattern is only found in 0.3% of the world’s languages. This is called anastrophe, in which the normal word order of the subject, the verb, and the object is changed.