› added 4 years ago

161

TIL Mike Tyson once offered a zookeeper $10,000 to fight a gorilla

Read more boxingscene.com

via reddit.com

OomQa TIL Hippos cannot actually swim. They have very little body fat and are made up of almost pure muscle. Unlike other mammals that usually float, hippos sink straight to the bottom. They are either running on the floor of the body of water, or they are pushing off and bouncing.
Jw71 TIL Charles Darwin & Joseph Hooker started the world’s first terraforming project on Ascension Island in 1850. The project has turned an arid volcanic wasteland into a self sustaining and self reproducing ecosystem made completely of foreign plants from all over the world.
M7PAm TIL that one reason UnitedHealth has so many members despite having the worst claims payment rate and the highest profit rate is... an exclusive deal with the "friend" of retirees, AARP
OG4vL TIL the chocolate marshemellow treat (Viva Puffs/Mallomars in North America), were known across much of the world as “N*gger Kisses” or some variation of that until the late 2010s in some countries
KOKY4 TIL that the house mouse (domestic mouse) migrated from regions within India to the rest of the world. This has large scale implications to the origin and spread of agriculture, human settlement and human civilization itself.