› added 8 years ago

371

TIL: A 25-year-old lived for more than a year without a heart

Read more sciencealert.com

via ift.tt

a8J4o TIL Dateline journalist Keith Morrison was Matthew Perry's stepfather
oBQJ7 TIL about the Himalayan 'Skeleton Lake', a lake at an altitude of about 5000 m, known for the hundreds of ancient human skeletons, the remains belonging to very different eras and to different distinct groups (Indian, South Asian and Mediterranean), whose cause of death remains a mystery though.
EZ6x TIL that a Facebook poll in 2012 indicated that Beaker is the favorite Muppets character, beating Kermit, Miss Piggy and Animal.
X0OZQ TIL that the European Union developed a satellite navigation system called Galileo, which can provide an accuracy of up to 20 cm (0.7ft) on smartphones, while GPS only reaches around 3 meters (10ft)
E1pa7 TIL: Caspian Sea has more salinity than Baltic Sea