› added 3 months ago

26

TIL the first antitoxin for botulism was harvested from the blood of a single horse, named First Flight, for 15 years until 1993.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

XE9XQ TIL that as a child Jimi Hendrix carried an actual broom with him everywhere around school for over a year, as a pretend guitar. The school's social worker tried to get funding for a real guitar, insisting that leaving him without one might result in psychological damage.
wLoPo TIL in 1976, Henry Kissinger became the first honorary Harlem Globetrotter.
p8poA TIL that all the dogs who played Lassie were male and were all descended from the initial Lassie, a collie named Pal
PQnZ TIL there are still polio patients in iron lungs
0dR9p TIL about the existence of the European Green Belt - an 8,500km long natural strip of wild forests and national parks connecting the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic Sea