› added 11 years ago

174

TIL: 15% of snails survive after being eaten by birds

Read more bbc.co.uk

via reddit.com

0dkER TIL: Alexander Hamilton’s first son Philip died from a duel three years earlier near the same spot Alexander was fatally shot, using the same set of pistols.
KYgQ TIL: Trees need wind to grow.
woVKJ TIL of COCONUTS-2b, a giant gas planet that takes over 1 million years to orbit around its star
v1gy7 TIL that Walt Disney originally wanted to call his most famous creation Mortimer, but his wife convinced him to change the name to Mickey.
ZpjO4 TIL that in 2016, a footballer in Sweden received a red card during a match for farting on the pitch, after the ref considered the flatulence "unsportsmanlike"