› added 7 years ago

509

TIL that the last time someone was killed by a spider in australia was in 2016, the second last time was in 1979, a total of 37 years. this was due to an anti-venom being made in 1980 for funnel web spiders.

Read more telegraph.co.uk

via ift.tt

v6g7 TIL over 2 million women were raped by the Russian Army after the fall of Nazi Germany.
XLA8 TIL The number of vacant houses in the US outnumber the homeless population
w79J Til that originally, Barney the dinosaur was going to be a blanket before he was potrayed as a dinosaur.
RZl6 TIL that the USA is ranked 4th for average (mean) wealth per adult at $348,000. But it is ranked 10th for median wealth, at $53,000. (page 10)
gMXM9 The earliest English word we have a record of was discovered during an archaeological dig near Norwich, England in the early 1930s. It was written in an ancient runic script carved on the bone of a deer: "raihan."