› added 12 years ago

485

TIL 80% of lightning strike victims are male.

Read more npr.org

via reddit.com

WVo TIL: That if you eat a teaspoon of sugar after eating something spicy, it will completely neutralize the heat.
YlJG TIL that between 1996 and 2001, Afghanistan had no national anthem because the taliban had banned music altogether.
Ov54 TIL in 1998 while conservationists were repairing Benjamin franklins London home, 15 bodies were found in the basement, buried in a secret windowless room beneath the garden. It’s thought the remains are from an anatomy school run by Benjamin Franklin’s friend William Hewson
mxZ7Y TIL that Barrow, Alaska - the northernmost town in the U.S. - changed its name to Utqiaġvik, its traditional Iñupiaq name.
OJN6 TIL in 2009, Colorado initiated its Family Planning Initiative to provide low-to-no cost birth control to 68 family clinics around the state. Between 2009 and 2013, the state’s teen birth rate dropped by 40%.