› added 2 years ago

119

TIL that Vernors, the oldest ginger soda in the U.S., is aged in wooden barrels for 3 years and is considered medicine by many Michigan natives.

Read more 10best.com

via reddit.com

d0Vr TIL Men have nipples because mammary cells are formed in the embryo before the Y chromosome determines that the embryo is a male.
OGEpe TIL about the Schäffer affair - in 1815, German doctor Georg Anton Schäffer was sent by the Russian-American Company to retrieve cargo from a ship that had run aground on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Instead, he tried organizing the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
XEQeD TIL Aki Ross from the Final Fantasy movie was actually featured on Maxim's Hot 100, becoming the first fictional character to appear on that list
QJeBM TIL the current Portuguese constitution states that "The Constituent Assembly affirms the Portuguese people's decision to [...] open up a path towards a socialist society" in its preamble.
5Ym5D TIL Sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison once mailed a publishing house 213 bricks and forced them to pay for it, and then later mailed them a dead gopher with a recipe for braised gopher stew, 4th class mail, over a contract dispute.