› added 9 years ago

420

TIL that before her death at 35, Harriet Cole, a maid at Drexel’s College of Medicine, willed her body to Dr. Rufus Weaver, and requested it be used to benefit science. Weaver proceeded with the complete dissection and mounting of her nervous system.

Read more drexel.edu

via reddit.com

5YVpr TIL that Jon Lovitz blames Andy Dick for contributing to the death of Phil Hartman by giving Hartman’s sober wife coke causing her to relapse and have a mental breakdown
8a5KL TIL Stalin was one asked by his mother what he did and he said he was "Something like the Tsar." His mom responded that he should have been a priest
p8pVb TIL Both male and female sweat have the same componds but in different composition. The difference in each aroma is caused by bacterial enzymes that changes the sweat to produce the smelly compounds. Women have a more oniony fragrance while men have more of a cheesy fragrance.
XVj TIL when Einstein died, his brain was taken out of him by a doctor who later disappeared with it. 23 years later, a reporter tracks the brain down to find the brain in hundreds of pieces.
XvRQ TIL that tigers are the only predators known to regularly prey on adult bears