› added 7 years ago

148

TIL a woman was elected to the US house of representatives in 1916, four years before women won the right to vote nationwide

Read more biography.com

via ift.tt

EX6X TIL Thor Heyerdahl traveled over 4000 miles across the Pacific Ocean in a wooden raft to demonstrate his theory that Polynesians came from South America
Oo5GX TIL of the French court dwarf Richebourg who was only 23 inches tall. During the French Revolution he was used to pass secret messages in and out of Paris carried by nurses and disguised in an infant’s clothing.
8aWXb A boeing 747-400 type airplane with 6 million parts, 71 meters long, 64 meters wingspan and 270 kilometers of cable, weighs approximately 185,000 kilograms, of which approximately 75,000 kilograms is aluminum.
grrO7 TIL a study with 30,899 participants found no link between vitamin supplements and longer lifespans.
6ZEX TIL ravens have been observed calling wolves to the site of dead animals so that they will open the carcass and leave the scraps more accessible to them.