› added 8 years ago

4889

TIL that in 1998 an octopus with 96 tentacles was caught in a bay in Japan.

Read more pinktentacle.com

via ift.tt

69Zl TIL that there are actual anti-drugs out there. Anti-weed, anti-LSD, and anti-heroin drugs have been developed in order to give the user the opposite effect of their more illegal counterparts.
awY49 TIL a bunghole is a hole bored in a liquid tight barrel to remove its contents. Uses include the making of beer, wine, and fermented foods.
gOO4 TIL the Ancient Greeks had no word for blue. Homer said the sea was “wine-looking.”
NXMbJ Today I learned Dating to around c. 13,000 BC, a cave painting in the Trois Frères cave in France depicts what some believe is a musical hunting bow used as a single stringed musical instrument and eventually developed into harps, lyres and the modern day electric guitar.
l705V TIL that in April 2018, Robert Pope completed the Forrest Gump run, in which he ran across America 5 times in 422 days of running. It is estimated that he ran 15,607 miles. As his first act after finishing the run he proposed to his girlfriend.