› added 1 year ago

35

TIL there is a direct correlation between grip strength of older people and their overall body strength

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

kO4aB TIL that Orangutans have been known to wash themselves with soap because they’ve seen us doing it, it has no benefit to them, they just do it anyway.
LQNMd TIL the ancient Nazca got water in the middle of the desert through an engineered series of 46 aqueducts running 12 km underground. They were built around 200-500 AD, and 32 of them are still used by local farmers today
gM9Y4 TIL: Thomas Jefferson helped popularize mac and cheese in America by serving it to his dinner guests during his Presidency. He even had his own recipe
8eMvK TIL Jimmy Carter is the only US president who has reported seeing an UFO
vLyK TIL we SURF the internet because of an image on a mouse pad. Jean Armour Polly wrote an article about the internet in ‘92 and was looking for a metaphor to describe how much fun and, at the same time, challenging it was to use the internet when she looked at her mouse pad showing a surfer on a wave.