› added 9 years ago

93

TIL That adult elephants will actively try to kill lion cubs in a kind of retaliation since adult lions are the only animal to prey on elephant calves.

Read more youtube.com

via reddit.com

k09g TIL the animators of “Toy Story” filmed themselves trying to walk while wearing shoes nailed to a wooden plank in order to have a reference for the green army men.
54MR TIL due to Bob Barker’s animal rights activism any episode of the Price is Right featuring a fur or fur coat as a prize was cut from syndication
1rV TIL ITT Corporation backed coups with the CIA in Brazil and Chile to keep their phone companies from being nationalized by the governments in power.
9WAM TIL In ancient Phoenician Sardinia, whenever elderly people were no longer able to support themselves, they were given a neurotoxic plant called “sardonic herb” and thrown off of a cliff. It is the source of the term “sardonic grin” because of the facial expression the plant caused following death.
BPyr TIL in the 1980s a man with severe OCD shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit suicide. Instead of killing him, the bullet destroyed the part of his brain that was responsible for his OCD, and he went on to become a straight-A college student five years later.