› added 12 years ago

100

TIL Bill Nye holds a patent for improved ballet shoes

Read more seattletimes.com

via reddit.com

P6eJ TIL snake venom contains proteins that change the odor of the wounded animal, allowing snakes to track their bitten prey by odor. This adaptation allowed rattlesnakes to evolve the strike-and-release bite mechanism, which provided a huge benefit by minimizing contact with potentially dangerous prey.
jNWkX TIL about Grise Fiord. Canada's most northern Town. The forced relocation of 8 indigenous families by the Canadian government established the town in 1953 to claim sovereignty. Survivors of the families were awarded 10 million dollars and a formal apology in 2010
BGyy TIL after the movie ‘Office Space’ came out, creator Mike Judge said T.G.I. Fridays got rid of all that (button) flair, because people would come in and make cracks about it. He believed he “maybe made the world a better place” because of this.
LkGvr TIL-Mystery Behind Percy Fawcett’s Disappearance-He was most famous for his mapmaking expeditions to the Amazon, a place he called the last great blank space in the world. In 1925, at 57 years old he led his last expedition in the Amazon to find the Lost City of Z and was never heard from again.
9l57 TIL that Pope Francis worked as a bouncer in a Buenos Aires bar to earn money as a student.