› added 3 years ago

219

TIL modern-day airplanes can withstand an intense amount of turbulence. The last time turbelance alone caused a plane crash was 1966.

Read more slackdavis.com

via reddit.com

dXrZ TIL slugs evolved from snails, and exposing baby snails to platinum turns them into slugs
QrwM TIL that after having the re-run episode of their Scientology episode of South Park “Trapped in the Closet” pulled from the air, Trey Parker and Matt Stone were quoted as saying, “So, Scientology, you may have won this battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun.”
7rJZr TIL after spending the best part of 60 years in prison, mob boss John Franzese was finally released in 2017 at the age of 100, at the time he was the oldest inmate in the US and the only centenarian in prison
75kX TIL law in India mandates that doctors write prescriptions in CAPITAL LETTERS in a ‘Legible’ writing as a measure to prevent deaths caused by the misinterpretation of their sloppy handwriting.
0w0pA TIL Japanese researchers transplanted lab-grown heart muscle cells onto a human patient's damaged heart as a successful alternative to whole heart transplant. They turned adult stem cells into heart muscle cells, placed the cells on degradable sheets, & covered the damaged parts of the heart.