› added 9 years ago

305

TIL: There is a last known recording of Hitler in conversation describing why the war didn’t go well in his own opinion.

Read more youtube.com

via reddit.com

yjy8 TIL that in 1930 a zoologist went to Syria and brought back 11 newly discovered hamsters. Only 2 of them bred and their offspring were sent to laboratories around the world. Today, the hamsters you see in pet stores are most likely descendants of these two hamsters.
5V7Qk TIL there's a whole gum wall in Seattle and 2,350 lbs (1,070 kg) of gum was removed in 2015!
8eb7Z TIL that Pope Pius IX kidnapped a Jewish boy from Bologna to raise him as his own kid.
xVwnB TIL that Jens Galschiot's Pillar of Shame sculpture in Hong Kong memorializes the Tiananmen Square Massacre that happened on June 4, 1989. It consists of 50 torn and twisted bodies. There are 3 other sculptures in the world, all to remind us of terrible atrocities that must never recur.
J1DyQ TIL that, to avoid predators, when the glass frogs are asleep, they remove nearly 90% of their circulating blood cells, storing what is essentially their entire circulatory system in one organ and resulting almost transparent