› added 4 years ago

386

TIL that the Japanese word "tempura" originates from the Portuguese word "tempêro" which means "to "season". Also, the tempura tradition was indirectly started by the Portuguese when they brought oil to Japan around 400 years ago.

Read more youtube.com

via reddit.com

R7JD8 TIL: That Anthropologist Rudolf Martin discovered there are actually 16 different eye colors and created the "Martin Scale", which was then expanded to 20 different eye colors, called the "Martin-Schultz Scale".
YbrP TIL that penicillin was formally discovered when Alexander Fleming did not tidy up some petri dishes filled with bacteria before going on vacation. A penicillin spore then spontaneously landed in a petri dish and caused enough damage to the bacteria for Fleming to notice this when he came back.
bkLZ TIL Huey Lewis achieved a perfect 800 in math on his SATs
MR9V TIL that in 2001 a 10-year-old girl named Laura Buxton released a balloon with her name and address on it, which floated 140 miles and landed in the backyard of a house where also lived a 10-year-old girl named Laura Buxton. The coincidences of the event only grow as you read more into it.
Vx5Q TIL HSBC Bank was caught laundering billions of dollars in drug money. No one went to jail.