› added 10 years ago

249

TIL - The pencils David Letterman uses at his talk show desk have erasers at both ends. This is so no one gets injured when he throws them.

Read more imdb.com

via reddit.com

XEPQD TIL that there are chemicals so dangerous and deadly even the nazis said Nah
KOm1G TIL about Henry Savery, a convict and Australia's first novelist. He was to be executed on April 22nd, 1825 in his native England for credit fraud amounting to £30K ( £2.3 million pounds today) Through influential friends this was commuted to transportation, only a day before his execution was due.
JYwAj TIL Female humans, pilot whales and killer whales are unique among animals: they are the only three mammals known to undergo menopause. This allows them to help their children survive into adulthood and—if they’re lucky—to act as grandmothers to the next generation.
wLPMW TIL Sputnik, the famed Soviet satellite that launched in 1958, wasn’t the first spaceflight. Instead, the Nazi's launched a V-2 rocket to space in 1942, and the first image of Earth taken from space came from a U.S. launched V-2 rocket in 1947.
wLOlM TIL of a mother finding her kidnapped daughter at a birthday party five years after the baby had been presumed dead.