› added 5 years ago

213

TIL Horses can't vomit.

Read more smithsonianmag.com

via reddit.com

p8GaA TIL Brad Pitt believes he has Prosopagnosia or "face blindness", a condition in which he has trouble recognizing and remembering faces, including his own
Rj47 TIL: John Moses Browning not only designed the M1911 handgun, but also the M2 50 caliber machine gun, the BAR automatic rifle, the 1887 lever action shotgun, the Auto 5 semi-auto shotgun, the Winchester 1894 lever action rifle, and many other designs and calibers.
9wxxM TIL cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling ran a Dungeons & Dragons game in 1978 with a young Warren Spector. Spector cited this as his inspiration to become a videogame designer, where he went on to produce games such as Ultima Underworld, Wing Commander, Thief and Deus Ex
wLgEW TIL that popular actor and comedian Chevy Chase got his stage name from a 15th century English poem called The Ballad of Chevy Chase, which tells the story of the battle of Otterburn between the Percys and the Douglases.
grLRW TIL 46 BC was 445 days long and is the longest year in human history.