› added 7 months ago

35

TIL a skydiver had a seizure while 9,000 feet in the air and was saved by his instructor pulling his ripcord

Read more people.com

via reddit.com

5vMk TIL that black roses occur in nature in only one tiny village in Turkey
QNkeX TIL that Dr. John Langdon Down believed that disorders such as Down syndrome (or "mongolism") make people look like a different race and considered this evidence that humans are a single species.
D1Vlp TIL that France’s longest land border is with Brazil
yl5M TIL that there is a medical condition named akinetopsia where you cannot perceive the motion of objects but can still see acutely and recognize objects normally. Everything seems to be frozen in time only to “jump ahead” in time and freeze again.
wxDE TIL Robert E Lee, the General of the Confederate Army, was anti-slavery and wanted to keep the Union intact but was very loyal to his home state of Virginia and choose to fight with the Confederacy because that is where Virginia aligned.