› added 9 years ago

439

TIL 1% Of All Americans Are In Jail

Read more youtube.com

via reddit.com

1a89X Til stereotypical cavemen hardly existed as very few Stone Age people lived in caves. Most were nomadic hunter gatherers living in temporary shelters such as tents or huts. Caves just have the best preserved artifacts
jyGX TIL since sunfish are susceptible to skin parasites, they sometimes break the surface of the water with its dorsal fin and beak to attract the attention of a gull or similar seabird. The seabird will then dig worms and other stubborn parasites out of the fish’s skin.
Jx11 TIL in 2005 a Welsh rugby fan boasted to friends that if Wales won the match they were watching he would cut his testicles off. When they won he went home, cut off his testicles and returned with them to show everyone in the bar
KMNB TIL most English translations of Jules Verne’s novels omit a lot of scientific exposition (sometimes entire chapters), replace lots of dialogue with short summaries, censor supposedly “anti-British"or"anti-American” sentiment, add many errors, and sometimes add whole new scenes.
e0n8b TIL A movie exists wherein Denise Richards falls in love with Paul Walker, only to have a gang of bullies feed him to a lion, at which point a mad scientist puts his brain in a robotic T-Rex.