› added 9 years ago

58

TIL that if a person is being crushed for hours (e.g. by earthquake debris), they should not be removed too quickly. Otherwise toxins from dying muscle may flood their bloodstream and kill them.

Read more m.wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

WkDkB TIL KFee, the original company that made the infamous car jumpscare ad, made new commercials for their lighter drinks; making the jumpscares less scary
EGWd TIL that Julie d'Aubigny was a 17th-century bisexual opera singer/fencing expert who killed or wounded at least ten men in duels and once snuck into (and set fire to) a convent so she could shag one of the nuns.
VOK8 TIL Japanese emperor Akihito is a world class expert on goby fish. He has published 38 peer-reviewed scientific studies on the topic.
GAwgQ TIL Sir Paul Nurse, English geneticist and Nobel Prize winner, had his application for a US green card rejected due to the short-form UK birth certificate which he submitted not naming his parents. When he applied for a full birth certificate he discovered that his sister was actually his mother.
P1QRG TIL about St. Simeon the Stylite, a Byzantine monk who lived atop a 60-foot pillar for 37 years in devotion to God.