› added 10 years ago

134

TIL Soviet Russia built a flying tank.

Read more todayifoundout.com

via reddit.com

5m7r TIL that facial attractiveness tends to be more important to humans than bodily attractiveness in seeking a relationship. The one exception lies in men searching for a fling who value body over facial attractiveness.
W8pA TIL that after four years of eating Cap'n Crunch with Crunchberries, a woman sued the distributor of Cap'n Crunch because she discovered that she was eating brightly-colored cereal balls, and that “Crunchberries” aren’t a real fruit like she had thought.
OoA56 TIL that hummingbirds go into a form of hibernation almost every night called torpor. This puts their body into a state of hypothermia in order to save energy and keep them from dying throughout the night while they can't feed.
jN9WX TIL The "Placebo Effect" doesn’t have clinical/medical significance outside of clinical trials, and Placebo's should never be used as a treatment. Placebos do about as good as “no treatment arms” in most studies with objective criteria.
4Xxnw TIL that the bullet lodged inside President Garfield likely didn't cause his death. At the time, Joseph Lister's ideas about germs had been widely accepted in Europe, but American doctors were still sceptical. Garfield's doctors used unsterilised instruments, causing an infection which killed him.