› added 11 years ago

2401

TIL There Exists An Australian Marsupial That Has 14 hour Marathon Orgy Sex Until Its Fur Falls Out, Goes Blind, Bleeds internally and Drops Dead

Read more wired.com

via reddit.com

W7aaN TIL during a pool party in Mexico in 2013, eight party-goers were rendered unconscious and one 21-year-old male went into a coma after liquid nitrogen was poured into the pool.
16lRr TIL of the CrunchPad, a failed tablet Linux computer that was a collab project of Mike Arrington of TechCrunch and a Singapore company called Fusion Garage, only to be mired in conflicts that caused Mike to leave the project and it was renamed the JooJoo.
wLPGo TIL about E.D. Morel, the shipping clerk who revealed Belgium's atrocities in the Congo. He noticed shipments of ammunition going to the Congo, and coming back with ivory and rubber. His superiors offered him a promotion in exchange for his silence. He refused, quit his job, and became a journalist.
NXQV1 TIL in 2018 the first documented instance of interspecies adoption between animals that strongly compete for resources in the wild was recorded when a lioness was observed to have adopted a baby leopard as one of her own.
loEmK TIL petit Four (small french pastries) got their name from how they are baked. Traditional brick ovens took a long time to cool down, so to not waste residual heat after baking bread, bakers made smaller cakes at this lower temperature. It was called baking à petit four - literally "at small oven."