› added 9 years ago

132

TIL that 90% of people with albinism in Africa, die by the age of 40 due to persecution.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

m1XvR TIL cooking has a million-year history
Zko4 TIL: in 1984, East Germany gave 5000 fake gas masks to Iran
5YknB TIL that architecture was a field of mathematics in much of the ancient world and many of the best know ancient buildings were designed by mathematicians
woEJ8 TIL that in the early 1900s, the daily horse manure production in New York City reached as much as 1,200 tons, leading to the establishment of a specialized army of horse-drawn carts for removal.
8aaGK TIL that Mark Ruffalo discovered that he had a tumor after he had a dream about a tumor growing in the left side of his head