› added 8 years ago

88

TIL that Alligator Snapping Turtles will eat almost any type of meat including including squirrels, armadillos and other turtles. One study in Louisiana showed 79.8% of the stomach contents of adult snapping turtles was composed of other turtles.

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

v1wwj TIL the Lo-Fi girl video was a livestream, and that it had been running for 1.5 years before the channel got suspended in error, creating the longest running YT video
XEgY8 TIL that on this date in 1803 more than 3000 meteorites fell from the sky and impacted the Earth near a town in Normandy, France.
PYmyn TIL that when Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashed, the first helicopter on scene that evening reported no signs of life so rescuers decided to pause and continue the next morning. Many initial survivors slowly died through the night from shock and exposure, leaving 4 survivors out of 524
DyVD TIL that in 2008, Italy spent $65,000,000 to bail out the Parmesan cheese industry
8mmG TIL An Ethiopian Olympic runner couldn’t find a comfortable pair of shoes, so he ran the 1960 Olympic Marathon in Rome barefoot, finished first, and set a new World Record.