› added 8 years ago

135

TIL Reindeer (aka Caribou) see light in the ultraviolet range, and that their eyes change in colour through the seasons from gold through to blue to help them better detect predators

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

XVZ8 TIL, In 2007 Comcast installed software/equipment on its networks to selectively interfere with customers’ TCP/IP connections which throttled upstream p2p bandwidth
PY9wV TIL Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer accidentally consumed a drink laced with sleeping pills, intended for a guest. When we woke, he found that his victim-to-be had burgled several of his personal items
xMp7 TIL: Banana is a herb, a fruit, antimatter emitter, Radiation emitter, and a unit of scale
vDwB TIL Scarlett Johansson auditioned for the lead role in “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo,” but was considered too “sexy.” The role went to Rooney Mara instead.
QJP1a TIL that despite infamously campaigning on "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever," Alabama governor George Wallace later renounced segregationism, publicly apologized to the black community, and appointed record numbers of African Americans to state positions and his cabinet.