› added 11 years ago

68

TIL Scallops have approximately 100 eyes around the edge of its shell

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

WEmN TIL all polar bears are Irish: they’re descended from brown bears that lived in Ireland over 20-to-30,000 years ago.
OoEK1 TIL Nobel Chemistry winner Theodor Svedberg developed the technique of analytical ultracentrifugation, and demonstrated its utility in distinguishing pure proteins one from another
Dlye TIL That a bar owner once built a Faraday cage around his bar to prevent patrons from using their cell phones.
loLVB TIL National Men's Day was a thing.
57Q9 TIL A man who lied about passing his second year of university, pretended to continue his study, crafting an elaborate lie until everyone he knew thought he was a medical doctor. No one found out for 18 years, until he killed his entire family to avoid being revealed.