› added 1 week ago

1

TIL that there is an olympian with a US$10,000,000 bounty and currently on the FBI's top ten most wanted list

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

woNl6 TIL the second most heard (10M) song in the Lorax soundtrack is Biggering, which wasn't even in the movie. It was replaced for the most heard song (30M), How Bad Can It Be?
v1yej TIL When hummingbirds reach puberty, the males’ beaks grow longer and sharper. They use them to stab other males in the throat to secure mating spots.
owyW TIL three words in English use ‘w’ as a vowel: cwm, a hollow in a mountain; crwth, an instrument similar to a violin; and cwtch, a hiding place.
4XjZa TIL in 2011 Actor Steven Seagal drove a tank through a house in Arizona while looking for a cock-fighting ring, allegedly killing a puppy and 100 chickens. He said he did it because he was an animal lover.
ndWB TIL the pilot of an Aeroflot Airbus A310 let his son sit at the controls during a flight in 1994. His son turned off the autopilot controls, crashing the plane, and killing all 75 on board.