› added 11 years ago

79

TIL of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, who was a female Soviet Sniper with over 300 comfirmed kills. She is considered as the most successful female sniper in the world.

Read more m.wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

PYp4J TIL a mermaid documentary fooled so many people that the U.S. Government had to issue a statement
jLvj TIL Three Japanese sailors in 1832 were caught in a storm, stranded at sea for 14 months and shipwrecked on current day Cape Flattery. Making them the first Japanese people in the Pacific Northwest.
JYOol TIL about The Onion King, an onion farmer in the 30s who took control of 98% of America’s onions and manipulated the market.
R7MG1 TIL the Occam's razor isn't the only philosophical razor, and there even is one called Newton's flaming laser sword which states "what cannot be settled by experiment is not worth debating"
eN1J TIL that the uncanny valley response likely evolved to keep us away from human corpses