› added 8 years ago

91

TIL as a response to 700 scientists expressing support for God-guided evolution, a petition called “Project Steve” was created and reached 1370 signatures. Only scientists named some variation of Steve were allowed to sign it. Less than 1% of people in the world are named Steve.

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

PYyRG TIL that dental fluoride was discovered due to a chemist investigating the weird staining on the teeth of people living in a small town in Colorado.
e0JD4 TIL The US is the global epicenter of tornado formation with an average of 1,200 each year. It’s the result of a unique geography that allows hot, dry air from the Southwest to flow atop moist, warm, unstable surface air east of the Rockies, with cold air at the jet-stream level overtopping it all
E1r4V TIL Tupac's album All Eyez On Me was called Euthanasia at first. The reason for the album's name change was, as Tupac said in December of 1995, "That’s how I feel it is. I got the police watching me, the Feds. I got the females that want to charge me with false charges and sue me and all that."
mxk7p TIL An Italian economics professor Guido Menzio's flight was delayed because while he was solving a differential equation on the plane, the woman seated next to him called a flight attendant and the pilot asked Menzio to get off the plane and was questioned by airport security.
PYgOG TIL The scientific name for the Eurasian brown bear is ursus arctos arctos, which means in Latin and Greek, respectively, bear bear bear.