› added 7 months ago

30

TIL about the "arrow stork" that helped understand the "annual sudden disappearance of birds"

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

a88Qo TIL that research shows that people who laugh at dark jokes have higher IQs and report less aggressive tendencies .
QNDYL TIL to his pique, but the merriment of his children, Winston Churchill found two of his cousins named on a list of arrested Nazi sympathisers
1p1X TIL during a meeting with the UN, North Koreans came with AK-47s under their jackets. Instead of confronting them American officers turned up the heat in the room to make them sweat under their heavy clothes
a8P0Z TIL: Elderly Americans lost over $3bn to scams in 2023
Eg4EP TIL of Annie Robinson, a stewardess who survived the sinking of The Titanic, but suffered from such strong PTSD, that she threw herself overboard to her death less than three years later on the SS Devonian, after she had a reaction to the sound of the ship's whistle.