› added 12 years ago

406

TIL: Drinking helps stave off Radioactive Poisoning. The survivors of Chernobyl were drunk at the time.

Read more medicalnewstoday.com

via reddit.com

VMxlQ TIL that the Tony Awards are named after an actress, Antoinette Perry.
1a4mV TIL that sleeping on the job, while frowned upon in many countries, is socially accepted in Japan
oBbZA TIL that, in July 2020, marine biologists studying the seafloor in the South Pacific Gyre ("the deadest spot in the ocean") discovered aerobic microorganisms in "quasi-suspended animation." At 101.5 million years old, they are the longest-living life forms ever found.
M71x7 TIL some bacteria evolved a needle-like structure for injecting other cells with special proteins. Type III secretion system , as it is called, is still poorly understood and we don't fully know how bacteria make them and how the needle itself works.
bk6Z TIL that during WWI and WWII the US and British Navy used Dazzle Camouflage which centered around confusion over concealment and resulted in some funky looking ships