› added 2 years ago

486

TIL the average urinary flow rate for women over 66 years old is twice the rate of men the same age. (18mL/sec. vs. 9mL/sec.)

Read more stlukes-stl.com

via reddit.com

1aW1d TIL that in 1966, the world cup trophy was stolen off England, only to be found 7 days later in a garden by a dog named pickles
L1ep TIL The idiom, “whatever can go wrong will go wrong”, better known as Murphy’s law, was named after an actual person. Captain Edward A. Murphy, an engineer for the U.S Army. This saying was coined after his repeated problems with his G force experiment.
EgJ5X TIL that Because English and British generals insisted The French unit that helped librate Paris would be all white, a white french unit had to be shipped in from Morocco, and was supplemented with volunteers from Spain and Portugal. Making it all white but not all French.
nWo7r TIL Steve Harwell, singer of Smash Mouth, was originally a rapper in a Public-Enemy-inspired rap group, but abandoned the project after he heard Dr Dre's The Chronic and realised that the genre was changing.
jNGLQ TIL of the tallest solider of all time, Väinö Myllyrinne. While he served for the Viipuri Heavy Artillery he was (7ft 3in) tall. Later in his life he had anothe growth spurt and he ended up being (8ft 3in) tall. On top of all that he was a wrestler, in a circus, and had GIANT hands.