› added 4 years ago

53

TIL Rickets is called "The English Disease" in some languages, after the thick smog during the industrial revolution in England gave up to 80% of children a vitamin-D deficiency

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

XED68 TIL Killer-whale mothers often stay with their adult sons for their entire lives, sharing their prey and knowledge, & that the mother's might also play a direct role in fostering mating opportunities. They really want grand children.
pdPp TIL that when the Big Bang theory was first presented, most scientists rejected it for sounding too religious.
9Qrp TIL There is a type of almost-perfectly-square bacteria that lives in extremely salty lakes around the world.
xVOmb TIL, UHAUL's founder Leonard Shoen was born on Leap Day, February 29th, and the year he was born on, 1916 is a leap year!
nbvY TIL that in 1928, Lyndon B. Johnson paused his studies to teach Mexican-American children, and used his own salary to buy volleyballs and softball bats for them.