› added 10 years ago

81

TIL 16-term Congressman Barney Frank was openly gay since 1987 but kept his atheism a secret till he left office because in politics, it’s harder to come out as atheist

Read more politico.com

via reddit.com

1mKd TIL even when taking dinosaurs into account, the modern day blue whale is the largest animal to ever live.
p8EkA TIL Spencer Elden is the name of the baby on the iconic cover of Nirvanas “Nevermind” Album.
e1JE TIL that Catalina Island (a small island of the coast of L.A.) has non-native buffalo that were brought over for a silent film after the movie was over they left the buffalo and after nearly a century the population has grown to 150.
ROd8 TIL the Irish are the second biggest tea drinkers on the planet. They have been found to drink more tea per pound than both China and India combined.
r874 TIL that a 1992 graduate thesis in Mathematics at the University of British Columbia proved that it was mathematically impossible to play an infinite game of Tetris.