› added 10 years ago

153

TIL Humans have a lot more than 5 senses, including balance, pressure, hunger and the ability to detect magnetic fields

Read more todayifoundout.com

via reddit.com

16WEV TIL that although the British regiment of Charles Roberts were massive drunks, they still managed to capture Fort Mackinac from the Americans in 1812, without a single loss of life.
x61d0 TIL: Barbers get hair splinters in their fingers when cutting coarse hair and it's called "barber's disease."
JYN1m TIL that Kelvin Doe lived in Sierra Leone (a small coastal country in southwest Africa) and is known for teaching himself engineering by the age of 13 and building his own radio station in his home country. He also built a battery out of scrap metal capable of powering the surrounding homes.
Y7RnP TIL: The writer of Ben-Hur was a Union General, a Governor, and an Ambassador. He even has a museum in his hometown in Indiana. Lew Wallace seemingly had a crazy and awesome life.
WkwnL TIL The US government imposed a livestock reduction on the Navajo in the 1930s. They bulldozed trenches,herded sheep and goats into them, coated them in flammable liquid, and burned them alive. They were promised land expansion that never materialized. From the memoir of Chester Nez, Code Talker.