› added 5 years ago

636

TIL blood pressure has a daily pattern with its highest point usually in the afternoon and the lowest point at night.

Read more mayoclinic.org

via reddit.com

0dJEN TIL the bubbles in champagne form tight lines rising to the top & most other carbonated beverages don't. Champagne contains surfactant molecules that keep the bubbles from leaving a wake as they move, preventing them from acting like the connected simultaneously-rising bubbles in other drinks.
R5MAj TIL W.E.B. Du Bois was an early supporter of eugeniics in the United States
0gRL TIL that Valve refuses to become a publicly traded company because they don’t want to have their products influenced by people who fund them.
v1APL TIL that South Korea is #1 in the world in hard liquor consumption, averaging 13.7 shots per week, way ahead of Russia in #2 at 6.3 shots per week.
4kDdX TIL: Two healthy teenagers injected elemental mercury hoping to turn their bones to metal after seeing X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Fortunately none had any serious repercussion aside of lengthy recovery.