› added 12 years ago

96

TIL that squirrels have an average lifespan of 25 years.

Read more radiolab.org

via reddit.com

8aEyZ TIL of 1920s ‘Little Albert experiment.’ Johns Hopkins University chose a nine-month old infant from a hospital and attempted to ‘condition a phobia in an emotionally stable child.’ They successfully made him fear Santa, rabbits, and other furry animals.
XOeD TIL that Niel Bohrs once told Albert Einstein to “Stop telling God what to do” in reply to Einstein’s famous quote “God does not play dice.”
R5vw8 TIL that the Latin script derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs.
EgKbo TIL: Supersisters was a set of 72 trading cards produced and distributed in the United States in 1979. They featured famous women from politics, media and entertainment, culture, sports, and other areas of achievement.
E87x TIL An inmate on death row pleaded for DNA testing which was denied. After his execution, Virginia refused additional public demand for the test, worried it would confirm that they’d “executed an innocent man.” The evidence was then destroyed.