› added 7 years ago

238

TIL Cats in America have contributed to the extinction of 33 bird species.

Read more abcbirds.org

via ift.tt

0xEM TIL of Lyudmila Pavlichenko; a woman credited with 309 kills as a sniper fighting for Russia in WWII. That number of kills included 36 other snipers.
yBEl TIL There is no paper in the ‘Star Wars’ universe, and paper never appears in the films
W4wA TIL Poland’s Boy Scouting association was transformed into an armed resistance force during WWII and fought in the Warsaw Uprising, assassinated SS officials, and liberated a concentration camp
l76gK TIL Robert Oppenheimer's brother Frank founded the Exploratorium Science Museum in San Francisco
vPyLD TIL over the course of his 23 published adventures, Herge's Tintin was knocked unconscious 43 times. Between 1929 and 1973, he was hit with a rake, a brick, a whisky bottle, an oar, a giant apple, a camel femur, a block of ice, and countless punches and clubs.