› added 5 years ago

115

TIL: In 1867, Russia sold Alaska to the United States for about 2 cents per acre

Read more history.com

via reddit.com

v6eB TIL that if the distance between a woman’s clitoris and vagina is greater than 3 cm (1.18 inches), she has a lower chance of having an orgasm through intercourse alone.
16a64 TIL McDonald's mascot Grimace is supposed to represent a taste bud and was originally called "Evil Grimace" and was scaly, had four arms, and stole milkshakes.
d8POE TIL that in 2008 a team of medical scientists built a "bioartifical heart", where they took a cell-less heart framework and reseeded it with cells. By the eighth day, the structure was able to beat and pump like a natural heart.
6EPrw TIL that London is plagued by wild parakeets, theorized to have descended from a pair released by Jimi Hendrix in the ‘60s
168oW TIL that the shockwave generated by the Tsar Bomba was so powerful that it was recorded by seismic stations around the world, confirming that the seismic shockwave circled the globe three times, shattering glass windows in buildings more than 400 miles away.