If you’ve spent enough time online, you’ll quickly realize that our brains weren’t meant to process this much information all at once. This is why it can be helpful to allow the good folks of the internet to curate and select the information you’ll end up seeing today.
We’ve gathered some of the interesting facts people have learned this month and decided to share them with the internet. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to add your own thoughts (or perhaps even facts) in the comments section below.
#41
TIL Starting in 1760 there was a forced land grab by wealthy landowners in Scotland that evicted thousands called the Highland Clearances, this was a major reason for the Scottish Diaspora.
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41points
#42
TIL in 2010, then stripper Bryan Hawn attempted to raise a 6-week old hyena, Jake, in a 1 bedroom apartment in Miami. This continued for 11 months, until Hawn was forced to re-home the hyena after it bit a friend, destroyed his plumbing, pooped everywhere, and broke his arm. They remain close.
41points
#43
TIL The largest human-made structure visible from space is not the Great Wall of China but El Ejido, a large complex of plastic greenhouses in the province of Almería, southeastern Spain
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41points
#44
TIL 74-year-old woman, with no priors, decided to rob a bank to handle financial ruin after being scammed by someone claiming to be from US Customs. She took full responsibility and is currently in prison.
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40points
#45
TIL that James Bond creator, Ian Fleming had it written into his contract at The Times newspaper that he would spend 2 months a year in Jamaica. It was during these breaks that he decided to turn his hand to writing books, working for 3 hours each day.
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39points
#46
TIL that in 1960, three teenagers were brutally m******d while camping at Finland's Lake Bodom, and the case remains one of the country’s most infamous unsolved crimes.
36points
#47
TIL Japan creates new land by burning garbage; they'd made over 250 sq km (96 sq miles) of it by 2012 using the ash
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33points
#48
TIL the first recorded human fatality attributed to a leopard seal occurred in 2003 when biologist Kirsty Brown was k**led by one while conducting research snorkeling in Antarctica. The animal drowned her by holding her underwater for around six minutes at a depth of up to 230 feet (70m).
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31points
#49
TIL that doctors warn that sitting on the toilet for more than 10 minutes is bad for you
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30points
#50
TIL in 2017 a healthy 16-year-old boy died from drinking several highly-caffeinated drinks too quickly. He drank a McDonald's latte, a large Mountain Dew soft drink, and an energy drink in just under two hours, which caused a "caffeine-induced cardiac event causing a probable arrhythmia".
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18points
