› added 4 years ago

269

TIL: Armadillo Shells are Bulletproof - a TX Man Was Hospitalized After He Tried To Shoot One & The Bullet Richoceted and Hit Him in the Jaw..

Read more independent.co.uk

via reddit.com

o9J8 TIL that only 5% of all the slaves from the Atlantic Slave Trade came to the USA. Most went to S. America and the Caribbean.
a8VZM TIL Prince George Washington was the last viceroy of Siam (present day Thailand). He eventually rebelled against, his cousin, the King. The rebellion failed, and in an ironic twist he sought refuge with the British. He spoke English fluently, had 28 children, and died in 1885.
wKaY TIL there is a large area of space that is devoid of any galaxies that has been theorized by cosmologist Laura Mersini-Houghton, to be the imprint of a parallel universe.
yJGv TIL that Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, a native of Brazil, renounced his US citizenship to avoid paying $700 million in taxes
D1R4D TIL of the Sky Burial. Utilized in areas such Tibet and Mongolia, corpses are left on mountainsides to be eaten by carrion birds or otherwise decompose. Many who practice it view it as more practical than digging graves and as a way to give back to nature