› added 6 years ago

647

TIL: Almost all the spiders you see in your home during the winter were actually born in your home

Read more terminix.com

via reddit.com

KyEw TIL the man who tried to save Abraham Lincoln went mentally insane and tried to kill his family.
MA9b TIL A man in 1938 agreed to have himself monitored on a electrocardiogram as he was executed to see the effects on his heart.
QgLp TIL archaeologists could determine the Lewis and Clark trail because their use of mercury laxatives left a trail of heavy metals along the way.
mPjy TIL that Elon Musk forewarned today’s failed rocket launch, stating “…Orbital Sciences… uses Russian rocket engines that were made in the ’60s…they start with engines that were literally made in the ’60s and, like, packed away in Siberia somewhere.”
e0N5 TIL Since 1988, US Presidential Debates aren’t debates at all, but closer to scripted news conferences where questions are agreed upon by both parties, answers are rehearsed into concise sound bites, and third parties are discouraged from participating.