› added 11 years ago

168

TIL that a 51 year old man spent 30 years completely alone in the Alaskan wilderness. Richard Proenneke built a cabin entirely by himself featuring a fireplace, cache, and working door locks.

Read more nps.gov

via reddit.com

b9PR4 TIL that the earliest fossils interpreted as multicellular animal embryos, predating the Cambrian explosion by nearly 100 million years, have been found in the chinese Doushantuo formation.
aJA TIL That physicists won the Nobel prize in 2010 for peeling graphene off pencils with scotch tape
9YAAp TIL Pharmacologist and biochemist Gertrude Belle Elion helped develop drugs for treating leukemia, malaria, herpes, and AIDS. She shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Medicine despite never having completed her PhD.
0wwd5 TIL about the Dunbar’s number. It is a theoretical upper limit of the people one can maintain stable relationships with. Suggested between 100 and 250. So if a town’s population is below the Dunbar’s number, it is more likely to have harmony and peace that a larger town or city.
eLy4 TIL that the fastest red card in a football match was given too Lee Todd in just 2 seconds for saying “Fuck me that was loud” when the Ref blew his whistle