› added 2 years ago

90

TIL that BASE jumping is one of the most dangerous sports in the world. The sport has a death and injury rate 43 times higher than parachuting from a plane, and according to one study, a fatality rate of 1 out of every 60 jumpers.

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

Ogka TIL that Sesame Street’s Count von Count penchant for numbers is not only a pun on his name, but vampire legends often indicate arithomania, or a fixation on counting small objects.
WkKMB TIL there are “witch camps” in Ghana where women accused of witchcraft can flee for their lives. They live in squalid conditions for the rest of their lives unless a priest determines their innocence by killing a chicken and watching how it dies.
9YrkM TIL that if you were born after October 31 2000 there has been someone living in space continuously for your entire life.
EgWx TIL The Catholic Church believed the first people to use Arabic Numerals were practicing magic and sentenced them to life in prison
PW8e TIL that MIT researchers developed a camera which operates so quickly, it can show the movement of light in slow motion.