› added 7 years ago

542

TIL Opossums are actually really helpful to humans.

Read more blog.nwf.org

via reddit.com

GYwX1 TIL the Property Brothers have a music career, but they go by the Scott Brothers.
9kDG TIL Homo Sapiens didn’t have problems with crooked teeth until agriculture and the resulting change in diet.
9Y4Vm TIL that a group of Belgian authorities have trained giant rats to sniff out land mines planted in Africa
XEL4Q TIL Oregon uses beet juice to de-ice the roads and is illegal to use salt.
RJwj TIL that war pigs were used in ancient warfare, to counter against war elephants, which feared the pigs (and their squeals) and would bolt. War pigs were sometimes lit on fire to enhance this effect.