› added 11 years ago

209

TIL the US and Australia are geographically almost the same size

Read more petergrantfineart.wordpress.com

via reddit.com

AoKx TIL: Ronald Reagan signed an Execituve Order prohibiting assassinations.
e0O9g TIL chameleons change color to reflect their moods, not for camouflage.
4m7o TIL in the 1920’s, Joseph Stalin sent a breeding expert to Africa to mate humans and chimpanzees in an attempt to create a monkey-man army.
epB95 TIL of the Salerno Mutiny, in which 191 British soldiers refused to participate in the invasion of Italy at Salerno after believing they were returning to the U.K. Three men were initially sentenced to death while the rest were sentenced to prison. These sentences were eventually suspended.
4bv5 TIL the GPS coordinates that lead to Walt’s buried money in BREAKING BAD actually, in real life lead to ABQ studios in Albuquerque NM where BREAKING BAD was filmed. They wanted to be sure the coordinates didn’t lead to somewhere people might go think there could be buried treasure.