› added 4 years ago

122

TIL about misophonia; a recently proven brain abnormality which means sufferers have a hatred of sounds such as eating, chewing, loud breathing or even repeated pen-clicking (as well as other trigger noises).

Read more time.com

via reddit.com

vVjB TIL In order to transport the Statue of Liberty from France to the United States, the statue had to be broken down into 350 individual pieces and placed through 214 crates in just under a year after the completion
ZpKOv TIL that "Julie; or, the New Heloise" was the best-selling novel of the 1700s. Some readers were so obsessed that they could not accept that the book was fiction. Rousseau, the author, said that so many women offered sex to him that he could have slept with any aristocratic woman had he wanted to.
oBOA8 TIL that Hockey Player Bobby's Ryan was born Robert Stevenson after his father beat the hell out of his Mother and jumped bail in 1997 then set up a new life in California
6PwZ TIL 10^−360,783 is the probability that a monkey could write Hamlet in one go, including capitals and punctuation.
d8Am9 TIL Crows have a basic understanding of language and can use words like “Hello,” correctly inferring its use as a greeting