› added 2 years ago

115

TIL without Lucile Ball, there would have been no Star Trek or Mission Impossible.

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

e6m6 TIL there’s only one wild herd of West African Giraffes in the world.
lMY5 TIL that in 1940 in Australia, two planes collided in mid air. Instead of crashing, the two planes stuck together and the pilot was able to make a safe landing.
94a7 TIL During a city-wide ‘lockdown’ after the Boston Marathon bombings, selected Dunkin’ Donuts locations were ordered to remain open to serve police despite the closing of the vast majority of city businesses.
xV7KD TIL there are twin astronauts, Mark and Scott Kelly, born on February 21 1964. Scott spent 340 days in the International Space Station. During and after Scott's year-long mission, the brothers were studied to find physical differences caused by living in space versus a baseline on Earth.
7rGEP TIL that at a point, breathing in Delhi, India was equivalent to smoking 45 cigarettes a day.