› added 12 years ago

83

TIL Albania is the only European country to save 100% of their jewish population during WWII

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

oB08o TIL: The Statue That Offended New York was a nickname for a realistic nude sculpted by Augustus Saint-Gaudens that circa 1900 stood on the city's highest point. A critic said the nearby park's character changed: kids displaced by "club men...with field glasses.” (The art was later sent to a museum.)
0P0A TIL genome maps show that cats are only really semi-domesticated, even after sharing homes with humans for over 9000 years.
R7ON6 TIL that platypuses lose their senses of sight, sound, and smell underwater, so they hunt prey using electroreception. Mechanoreceptors and electroreceptors in their bill allow them to use electrical impulses to locate objects in the deepest and darkest of waters.
16QY4 TIL of ‘Tule Fog’ a weather phenomenon that happens in the Central Valley California where fog is so thick it can be seen from space.
rNAyd TIL the art director for Teen Titans Go, Dan Hipp, has his own manga series called “Gyakushu”