› added 4 years ago

233

TIL in 1967, hippies attempted a ritual to levitate the Pentagon in the air to end the Vietnam War.

Read more smithsonianmag.com

via reddit.com

R7by4 TIL of the New Zealand Black Robin that went from extinct to threatened after scientists found 6 males and 1 female on a rocky island isolated from introduced predatory species. today there are hundreds of Black Robins.
VMbV4 TIL people really do have a "type" when it comes to romantic attraction. According to a study, 50% of people’s preferences for faces is unique to them, and who we find attractive is most strongly influenced by our life experiences.
R5Bg8 TIL that in world war 2, English soldiers would use passwords that had sounds that the language of the people they where fighting against did not have, so that they could tell if an unidentified person was an enemy soldier tying to infiltrate them by if they said these sounds correctly.
VBN1Q TIL that a woman woke up at her own funeral after being declared dead by doctors.
0NVN TIL there is currently a community of people living on top of a mountain in France. They believe that on December 21, aliens will emerge from the mountain to save them from the apocalypse.