› added 2 years ago

153

TIL that scallops have up to 200 eyes and see at quite high resolution.

Read more smithsonianmag.com

via reddit.com

0eZA TIL in 1968, a car driven by bank employees was pulled over by a motorcycle cop claiming the car had been rigged with a bomb. The cop got under the car to “defuse” the device. When the car started to smoke, everybody ran. Then the “cop” just drove the car away. The 300M Yen robbery remains unsolved
gr7Py TIL that Carl Sagan has an archive in the Library of Congress, endowed by the creator of Family Guy. Seth MacFarlane put up an undisclosed sum to help the Library of Congress buy more than a thousand boxes of material kept by the late scientist and his wife and collaborator, Ann Druyan.
aaLy TIL about 8% of the population suffer Sleep Paralysis. Which is a phenomenon in which an individual, either during falling asleep or awakening, briefly experiences an inability to move, speak, or react and some experience hallucinations of shadowy figures or demons.
9ZQM TIL that president George H.W. Bush was once given a 9-foot Komodo dragon as a gift from the Indonesian government. Its name was “Naga”, and it was the largest Komodo dragon in the western hemisphere. He donated it to the Cincinnati Zoo.
6EbNX Today I learned Woody Harrelson's father was a contract killer