› added 4 years ago

828

TIL Frederick Douglass was the most photographed American in the 19th-Century

Read more nbcnews.com

via reddit.com

0rgy TIL Rhino horns are being injected with poison to scare off consumer demand.
woGV6 TIL that ejaculation is initiated by the spinal cord, not the brain. A group of neurons, calls LSt cells control and coordinate the various aspects of ejaculation and send signals to the brain, indicating the occurrence of ejaculation.
oRVoK TIL that Harriet, a 176-year-old Galapgos tortoise, reportedly belonged to both Charles Darwin and Steve Irwin.
X0xwP TIL about phage therapy, a treatment for bacterial infections prior to the advent of antibiotics that relied on bacteriophages to infect and kill bacteria
emkJ TIL that the first foreigner to become a samurai was an african slave.