› added 11 years ago

2152

TIL for most of history people have had two periods of sleep each night, with the time in between being perhaps the most calm and relaxing part of their lives.

Read more delanceyplace.com

via reddit.com

PKrV TIL in 2012 a study in East Germany was unable to find a single person under 28 who believed in god.
nm6Y TIL that Ben Cohen, co founder of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, cannot smell. The reason the ice cream is characteristically chunky is because in order to compensate for his lack of taste he would add big pieces of fruit to the ice cream to satisfy his need for texture in food.
JDdB TIL In The Quarterly Review of Biology, researchers at UC Santa Barbara and Uppsala University in Sweden have concluded through their research that sexual orientation is not genetic.
VXjp TIL that the best selling mystery novel of all time, written by Agatha Cristie, was originally titled Ten Little Niggers. It sold over 100 million copies.
kNKW TIL that a live snail was kept in a museum for years before anyone knew it was alive