› added 11 years ago

81

TIL early humans literally ran their prey to death

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

j61AQ TIL Gibraltar is home to around 230 monkeys. They are known to steal from and even attack people.
NwpE TIL that due to changes in local gravity, a pendulum clock accurate at sea level will lose around 16 seconds per day if moved to an altitude of 4000 feet.
wLPA1 TIL the origin of the phrase “steal my thunder” is an 18th century playwright who created a machine that recreated thunder noises for a cancelled play. When he attended a later play in the same theatre and heard it used, he cried "Damn them! They will not let my play run, but they steal my thunder."
0ddZM TIL about Jesus García, a 23-year-old railroad brakeman, who died during a train explosion saving the town of Nacozari, Mexico.
WrdB TIL that the Church of Scientology is a corporation, and the actual “church” is just an arm of the corporation. They also have another arm called “Golden Era Productions” tasked with producing propaganda and conducting worldwide marketing campaigns for Scientology.