› added 7 years ago

312

TIL The animal that kills the most humans each year is the Mosquito at 725,000 deaths, followed by Humans at 475,000, and then Snakes causing 50,000 deaths per year.

Read more reddit.com

via ift.tt

rR0lW TIL that the NFL sent a cease and desist order to an Indiana Church in 2007 for charging admission to a Super Bowl party that was showing the game on a TV larger than 55 inches thus infringing on the NFL’s copyright laws.
XERmQ TIL Elvis had to be rescued from a bowl of chicken soup that he began to drown in.
9kJB TIL during the Chernobyl, three engineers volunteered to dive into a pool of radioactive hydrogen peroxide with no working flashlights and open a pipe to stop the reactor from exploding. They succeeded.
GYRjg TIL of Buffalo Child Long Lance, an American journalist, writer and actor from North Carolina who became internationally prominent as a spokesman for Indian causes. He was a darling of Hollywood cocktail parties until it was discovered that he was part black, a fact that ended his career.
5rOD TIL Koko the gorilla is still alive and is 42