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TIL that every day the average human heart pumps over 1800 gallons of blood through veins and other vessels

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8mjX TIL scientists believe dolphins can effectively send each other “images” via echolocation by recreating the sound profile an object.
684l TIL that if you are dyslexic in an alphabetic language like English, you may not be in a pictographic language, like Mandarin, as brain scans show them occurring in different places.
wooe1 TIL in 2011, a Minnesota mom accidentally fell asleep on her baby, killing her, after drinking a fifth of vodka. Nancy Grace labeled her the "vodka mom" and ridiculed her on national TV. Shortly after, she killed herself.
j6N9p TIL Tucson is the longest continuously inhabited region in the US stretching back for at least 4,000 years
m14ax TIL: Inmates are not allowed to wear wigs or artificial hairpieces.