› added 10 years ago

86

TIL that speaking Kurdish in public was illegal in Turkey in the 90s

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

pYype TIL That platypus have no nipples. Their milk oozes out of mammary gland ducts and collects in grooves on their skin--where the nursing babies lap it up or suck it from tufts of fur.
kJjQ7 TIL: Penguin Poop Powers Antarctic Cloud Formation.
0dNPv TIL David Copperfield was once robbed at gunpoint -- but successfully performed an illusion to convince the robbers his pockets were empty when they weren't.
nW9Vo TIl that in 1964 a Swedish journalist did an experiment where he had a chimpanzee named Peter make a series of pantings and then submitted them to an art show as by Pierre Brassau to see if critics could tell the difference between avant grande art and art by a chimp. Most critics fell for it
9vRp TIL Matt Groening said that enough material was cut from The Simpsons Movie to make two more films.