› added 8 years ago

78

TIL that Amy Van Dyken, a 6-times Olympic gold medalist swimmer, has been an asthmatic her whole life, proving that children with asthma can grow to be olympic-level athletes!

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

X1Gk TIL that if space is truly infinite, then probability dictates that there is an exact copy of you in the universe within 10 to the 10^28 meters of you, due to the finite possible arrangements of matter.
WkxY9 TIL that although the Maya were already in decay when the Spanish arrived and therefore did not offer much resistance, the location of their civilization centers in the deep jungle made their last city survive until 1697.
1RZd TIL that in 2007, reddit helped name a humpback whale, now known as “Mr. Splashy Pants”
xWxw TIL that childhood trauma (like being emotionally neglected or losing a parent) increases the likelihood of the adult onset of chronic disease like cancer, heart disease, and mental illness along with being more likely to be violent, have their lives shortened by 20 years, be an alcoholic, and more.
grapX TIL the KVLY-TV antenna in North Dakota was the tallest structure in the world from 1963-1974, and again from 1991-2008