› added 2 years ago

57

TIL that there is a hairy, bearded baby. This is because he has a condition known as lanugo.

Read more lesemeur.ulb.ac.be

via reddit.com

lLYN TIL: After the murder of a director William Taylor, a reporter tried to get a confession out of Taylor’s black valet. Believing that blacks were afraid of ghosts, she lured the valet to a cemetery where a man covered in a bed sheet appeared pretending to be a ghost. The valet then laughed at them.
EVn0 TIL that during the Battle of Okinawa, Around 80,000 Japanese civilians committed suicide after being convinced by the Japanese Army that they would be “Tortured, Raped, and Murdered” by the American forces after they invaded. It is known as the biggest Mass suicide in history.
GOnE TIL Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class
p87K4 TIL An African flamingo known only has No. 492 escaped a Kansas zoo in 2005 and has been roaming the U.S. ever since.
789rZ TIL: John Boyd Dunlop the inventor of the first practical pneumatic tire, first created a tire for his son's tricycle ride; the resulting air-filled tire revolutionized transport.