› added 8 years ago

1006

TIL that box jellyfish have human like eyes but no brain.

Read more livescience.com

via ift.tt

68EY TIL a young Frenchwoman robbed a bank with friends, her friends were caught, but she escaped and left the country. She obtained false documents and for 25 years lead a new life in Mexico where she became a psychotherapist and mother. Four days before the statue of limitations ended, she was arrested
OoxZ4 TIL about the dwarf planet Chiron in our solar system. It orbits our sun between Saturn and Uranus and even has its own rings. The orbit of Chiron is highly eccentric, which makes scientists speculate it may originate from outside our solar system.
Lkle9 TIL That Pluto was discovered in 1930 by a 23 year old farm boy with no degree in astronomy. He spent a year comparing photographs, looking for a star that changed positions in the sky. He would later teach at New Mexico State.
Z89YY TIL in 1975, a Soviet naval officer led a mutiny onboard a frigate with the aim of toppling the government of Brezhnev. It failed after a standoff with half of the Soviet Baltic fleet, but an article about it inspired an insurance salesman named Tom Clancy to write his book, The Hunt for Red October
GJJ7 TIL: Grasshopper Mice have adaptation to turn scorpion venom into a pain-killer. They now prey on scorpions.