› added 7 years ago

225

TIL: Dolphins are born with hair, but it falls off shortly afterward

Read more dolphincommunicationproject.org

via reddit.com

XEYrE TIL Avocado seed can “bleed” red if its outer surface is removed/broken due to high concentration of tannin being oxidized. Additionally, Tannin is a class of biomolecules that historically been used as an ink in its liquid form.
WkgPB TIL about the Butcher of Kansas City, a little known serial killer from the 1980s. He is known to have tortured and killed 6 men, and as many as 20. He injected drain cleaner in their throats to silence their screams while he was at work.
vPj0x TIL Simply calmly treading the water in a rip tide can return you to shore in 3 minutes, because rip currents are really whirlpools, according to an oceanography professor's study that sensors to analyze the flow of wave water. (Source: nps.edu, 2010)
nOR7 TIL that the parody national anthem or Kazakhstan from Borat was accidentally downloaded and played in its entirety for a Kazakh gold medalist during the 2012 Olympics
6Y9w TIL that Sony BMG used music cds to illegally install rootkits on users computers to prevent them from ripping copyrighted music; the rootkits themselves, in a copyright violation, included open-source software.