› added 1 year ago

39

TIL that sharks do not produce sounds. Out of the 400-500 species, no organ capable of producing sound has ever been found.

Read more atlasobscura.com

via reddit.com

oR7XA TIL in order to transport a gun to New Jersey you must take the gun apart and place each part in separate lock boxes and place them in separate parts of the vehicle.
dlYK TIL George Lucas offered his game developers the choice between naming a villain “Darth Icky” and “Darth Insanius”, and was completely serious
QJ759 TIL that Walter Becker and Donald Fagen of Steely Dan recieve 100% of royalties and retain sole writing credit on the hip-hop single "Deja Vu (Uptown Baby)" by Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz.
6EXJ TIL the computer was not invented in the 1940’s. In the 1830’s Charles Babbage designed a mechanical, steam powered beast with a CPU, RAM, even a printer, that could do most of the things early electronic computers could. It was never built.
b9Wwj TIL prop money used in films has to be one-sided and less than 75% or more than 150% the size of a real banknote to be legally used.