› added 11 years ago

203

TIL Due to pollution and malnutrition more than 40 million people in mainland China have been diagnosed as infertile.

Read more scmp.com

via reddit.com

xxR7 TIL that US presidents do not age faster while in office. The wrinkles and gray hair acquired at fast rates are due to them being on their 40s and 50s at the time of their inauguration
rRXoy TIL the only two mammals who still lay eggs, Echidnas and Platypuses, are also the only two mammals who have no resemblance of teats on their bodies. Nursing young lick the milk off of their mother's fur that is secreted out of their skin, like sweat, via their mammary glands.
BEjL TIL that a 6 year old Teddy Roosevelt watched Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession.
nWBjr TIL: 50 years ago, American TV reporter, Christine Chubbuck, committed suicide on live TV by shooting herself in the head.
LQD4r TIL the official who oversaw the construction of the Bastille, Hugues Aubriot, was also one of the first people to be imprisoned within it. He was accused of heresy after arresting people who had harassed the city's Jewish population