› added 7 years ago

147

TIL that cows routinely escape slaughterhouses in NYC, and often evade police for hours once they’re out.

Read more nbcnewyork.com

via ift.tt

V9NB TIL: You have the EXACT SAME taste buds in your intestine as you do in your tongue. In your tongue, the buds are hooked up to your brain’s pleasure centers. In your intestine, they’re hooked up to your pancreas where they trigger the release of insulin.
GVZ4 TIL…Only two fighter aces in WWII where female, one was Soviet Lydia Litvyak, who in a Yak-1, a very dated and unreliable plane vs. the German Me-109 got 12 solo kills
4kanw TIL that the day after Chapman murdered John Lennon, Chapman, Yoko, and Lennon all had front seat tickets to see David Bowie on Broadway
N7WR1 TIL about the Carrington Event, the largest recorded solar storm to hit Earth. Auroras were seen as far south as Cuba, and telegraph equipment was destroyed across the US and Europe. A similar storm, which would destroy electronics and power grids, has a 12% chance of occurring in the next decade.
YpjmW TIL heroin was often smuggled into the united states on the corps of fallen soldiers