› added 6 years ago

275

TIL Snails’ teeth are the strongest natural material on Earth, able to withstand pressures high enough to turn carbon into diamond.

Read more smithsonianmag.com

via reddit.com

oRVjE TIL there is a Hindu Patron God of Transgenders
9wA6Q TIL that physicist Lawrence Langer took a nap on the Little Boy nuclear bomb. It was the only "place where there was room to lie down" while he was keeping the curious away from the bomb the night before the Enola Gay's bombing run.
1aJ48 TIL of King Mithridates of Pontus, who ingested increasing amounts of various poisons in order to prevent his assasination by poisoning. When surrounded by enemy soldiers, he tried to commit suicide by poisoning himself with all of the poisons he had on hand but failed because he was immune.
W7VaN TIL that “Stars and Stripes Forever” is an emergency alert at the circus. When it is played by the band it usually means there is a fire and that the performers and circus hands should go to their emergency stations and start evacuating people
0dJev TIL the games magazine CPC Attack gave the best reviewed games their “Bogus Award” because they didn’t understand the terms meaning.