TIL that in 2006, a study found that the San Andreas fault had reached the sufficient stress level for another "Big One", an earthquake with a magnitude greater then 7.0 on the Richter scale, and with
The unbroken seal on King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922. That piece of rope and clay remained entirely untouched for 3,245 years before this photo was taken
TIL President John F. Kennedy had two caskets because the first one, an expensive bronze model rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, was heavily stained and damaged by bodily fluids on fligh
TIL the developer of the Japanese Shine Muscat grape never registered it for overseas protection, which made it ineligible for overseas royalties. As a result, about 10 billion yen is lost annually du
TIL during the Korean War, American and Greek soldiers held Outpost Harry, a strategic position about 60 miles northeast of Seoul, against Chinese assaults. At times outnumbered 30:1, they endured mas
TIL that after WWII, mutton consumption declined and almost disappeared in the US. American GI's were fed canned mutton during the war and looked down on the meat ever since.
TIL in the hit 1992 horror movie Candyman, actor Tony Todd had real, live bees inside his mouth for the famous scene where bees crawl out of Candyman's mouth. He negotiated a contract clause that paid
TIL In 1862, an enslaved man named Robert Smalls stole a heavily armed Confederate military ship He disguised himself as the captain, sailed past multiple Confederate forts using secret hand signals a
Two Indian Ornamental tarantulas (Poecilotheria regalis) "talking" through glass using seismic drumming for mating communication. (Left female, right male)
TIL a geologist was ridiculed for decades for claiming the Pacific Northwest was carved by a catastrophic Ice Age flood. NASA satellite images proved him right in the 1970s. He finally received geolog
TIL that working night shifts is linked to faster biological aging, and night shift workers lose almost a year of life expectancy by their mid 40s compared to day workers.
this is a perfect example of not listening to the pre-dive briefing, The basic rule is always keep eye contact with the largest approaching shark and if it turns you need to turn with it keeping eye c
In Nola, Italy, over 100 men carry a 25-meter-tall, 2.5-ton (5,500-lb) tower through packed narrow streets, a centuries-old tradition honoring Saint Paulinus
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