› added 12 years ago

162

TIL there are more tigers in Texas than in their native land of India

Read more butnerblogspot.wordpress.com

via reddit.com

VBENZ TIL That during the Colonial Era, Rhode Island rum joined gold as an accepted currency in Europe for a period of time
GKRG TIL in WWI the British dug tunnels 120 feet underground to lay 22 mines beneath German trenches. Exploded at 3AM, the mines took out 10,000 German soldiers and an entire town in a “detonation now known as history’s deadliest non-nuclear, man-made explosion.”
oBJgR TIL the shrimp cocktail was invented in a bar on Boston Harbor in 1941. It was first prepared as a drunken “let’s put gross shit together in a glass and dare people to drink it” concoction with shrimp, ketchup, and vodka, but it proved to be delicious while hammered.
0wL1M TIL that many critics and audience members felt that the horrific wounds inflicted by the M2 .50-cal. heavy machine gun in Rambo (2008) were so gory that it was unrealistic. However, Afghanistan veterans who had used the M2 noted that the wounds were quite accurate, and if anything were toned down
R5xoa TIL Arizona State University is the only university in the world to offer a master of science degree in biomimicry (the study of design modeled on nature).