› added 6 years ago

354

TIL that when a whale dies in cold waters, its body falls to the ocean floor creating its own ecosystem which can last for decades.

Read more oceanservice.noaa.gov

via reddit.com

Wk9WL TIL: When roosters open their beaks fully, their external auditory canals completely closed off. Basically, roosters have built in earplugs. This helps prevent them from damaging their hearing when they crow.
n5yY TIL that the “Wa” in Wario and Waluigi isn’t an upturned M, it’s actually a portmanteu of Mario and Luigi’s name and the Japanese adjective warui which means “bad”, literally translating to “bad Mario” or “bad Luigi”.
X05W6 TIL that visitors to the Grand Canyon National Parks Museum were exposed to unsafe levels of radiation for nearly two decades due to uranium ore being improperly stored in 5-gallon paint buckets next to a taxidermy exhibit
6EV9w TIL that it takes 9 days and 14 hours to watch all of The Simpsons straight in one run.
WjXd TIL that in the 2000 census, 89.9% of Americans with the surname “Washington” were black.