› added 7 years ago

197

TIL the Rocky Mountain Locust once formed a swarm the size of California only to go extinct 30 years later

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

nwQb TIL in 1981 the Chicago fire dept. tried to kill a stuntman climbing the John Hancock Centre by spraying him with fire hoses while he was 37 floors high.
mOkR TIL not only are Rob McElhenney and Kaitlin Olson (Mac and Dee from It’s Always Sunny in Philly) married in real life, but they even own a bar together in Philadelphia. It’s called “Mac’s Tavern”.
gAJ8 TIL There is an enzyme that can ‘glue’ scrap meat together and is then sold as prime cuts. It is so convincing even butchers cannot spot the difference.
X0Z78 TIL 'Changes' is a cover
EgYgo TIL that Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry has bred nearly 8,000 chicks annually (around 20 a day) as part of a Chicken Hatchery exhibit since 1956. The chicks are kept on exhibit for Museum Visitors to view for a week. After that, most are fed to animals at the Lincoln Park Zoo.