› added 2 years ago

93

TIL The tiny island nation of Tuvalu consists of nine islands. Interestingly, "Tuvalu" means "eight standing together" in Tuvaluan. This is due to the fact that only eight of the islands were populated before the Europeans "discovered" the archipelago.

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

9ALM TIL Dr.Seuss wrote an adult book, but due to his inability to draw a sexy female it was a flop
nedYr TIL that manatees rely on their farting abilities to keep them afloat. When they have gas stored up, they’re more buoyant and float to the surface. When they fart out that gas, they sink. When constipated and can’t pass gas, they can't swim properly and float around with their tail above their head.
gMVE9 TIL during the 1999 University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt one of the teams managed to build a working nuclear reactor from scratch.
mxobP TIL about a "Rabbit Test", a now retired pregnancy test, in which urine from a human female would be injected into a female rabbit. The rabbit would later be dissected to annualize the effect on it's ovaries. "The rabbit died", used to be slang for getting pregnant.
OGaJ6 TIL there are ten songs in the Billboard Hot 100 in 1962 with the word "Twist" in the title including Chubby Checker's "The Twist," Chubby Checker's "Slow Twistin'," Sam Cooke's "Twistin' the Night Away," Joey Dee and the Starliters' "Peppermint Twist," and Gary U.S. Bonds' "Dear Lady Twist