› added 10 years ago

143

TIL that the most common phobia is the fear of public speaking.

Read more livescience.com

via reddit.com

owdr TIL that rats in New York City carry numerous diseases, in a sample of 133 rats, scientists discovered 18 different viruses known to infect humans. In fact, scientists even discovered some viruses that were previously unknown to have existed.
nedLY TIL Of A PREHISTORIC SPERM WHALE, The creature had a far more powerful bite with a nightmarish set of teeth, Twelve to 13 million years ago, it likely dined on smaller whales. It WAS DUBBED LIVYATAN MELVILLEI, giving Moby-Dick’s creator a posthumous shout-out.
x69e0 TIL Kalaallisut is the principal language used by all native Greenlanders and most of them are bilingual in Danish, and trilingual, with English. But in Nunavut, Canada, young Inuit prefer to use English and most cannot speak in Inuktitut about everyday life
p8x78 TIL The Cheesecake Factory menu is 5,940 words long. The company has the extensive menu as a selling point and driver of word-of-mouth advertising. Researchers D. Godes and D. Mayzlin found that a single conversation by a new customer leads to an almost $200 increase in restaurant sales.
DnrD TIL the study that began the “vaccines cause autism” hysteria was proven to be a COMPLETE fraud