› added 1 year ago

86

TIL that octopuses have three hearts and blue blood

Read more sciencefocus.com

via reddit.com

XEXY6 TIL that Coca-Cola used to literally, unironically contain cocaine to round off its other main ingredient, caffeine.
v1mEr TIL that the "Johns" in Johns Hopkins was originally a last name, not a first name: "Johns Hopkins' peculiar first name was simply a family affair; it had been his great-grandmother's maiden name."
wrd6 TIL During the Winter War, the Finns would prop up frozen Soviet soldiers to intimdate the troops
epWJL TIL: A South Carolina judge revoked the license of a funeral home where a worker cut the legs off a 6-foot-7 body so it would fit in a casket.
5Ep TIL that Teddy Roosevelt was the first and only US president to take on a full grown cougar with only a knife.