› added 2 years ago

74

TIL that in 1895 a swarm of Rocky Mountain locust, measuring 1,800 miles long and 110 miles wide, blocked out the sun for five days. Thirty years later the locust was extinct.

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

oLy8 TIL: A half-Jewish man was used in Nazi recruitment posters and dubbed as “The Ideal German Soldier”, before being kicked out for being too Jewish.
e64J TIL Right before Buddy Holly’s death which was caused by plane crash, bandmate Waylon Jennings joked “Well, I hope your ol’ plane crashes!” A statement which haunted him the rest of his life.
1ayOP TIL that three songs recorded by Mariah Carey in the period 1991-2 were the subject of successful plagiarism lawsuits. Other artists who have lost multiple plagiarism suits include Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, Madonna and Ed Sheeran.
Movm TIL a man pain under $3 at a thrift store for a “fake” copy of the Delcaration of Independence, turns out to be an original. 36th original copy found out of 200, and sold for half a million dollars.
oR44W TIL if there are complications getting a baby to come out, they will use a vacuum. It's called a "vacuum extraction delivery".