› added 2 weeks ago

2

TIL the New Holland mouse is a non-marsupial mammal native to Australia. After it was first described by Europeans, it wasn't seen again for over 100 years

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

xVwjD TIL That 99.9% of Calico Colored Cats are Female
yQlGM TIL the spiked tail of a stegosaurus didn’t have a scientific name until one was made up in the ‘Far Side’ comics. Paleontologists loved the joke so much that they began using ‘thagomizer’ formally.
vE8B TIL that Albert Einstein was only 26 years old, when he released his special theory of relativity.
OGgVX In 1969, Alan Funt, the creator of the television prank show Candid Camera, was on board an airplane that got hijacked. His fellow passengers recognized him and refused to believe the hijacking was real. They were finally convinced after the hijackers forced the plane to land in Cuba.
rNyko TIL that Jay Penske, son of the founder of Penske Corporation, owns the media company that owns Rolling Stone, Variety, Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, Deadline Hollywood, Robb Report, IndieWire, TVLine, and the Golden Globes.