› added 8 years ago

196

TIL the Producers of Hannah Montana almost named her Alexis Texas.

Read more ijr.com

via reddit.com

KwR9 TIL Putting pepper on your lawns will keep dogs away
E6w7 TIL the pre-Columbian Aztec Empire used cacao beans as the currency for small everyday transactions. A small rabbit cost 30 cacao beans, a turkey egg cost 3 cacao beans, and someone’s daughter to be used as a human sacrifice cost 500 cacao beans.
OooQY TIL that pine cones have genders.
GYnWN TIL That pencils never actually contained lead, people just called it that cause they thought graphite was a type of lead.
9wvLB TIL that Ma and Pa Kettle, from the book The Egg and I, were actually based on a real family, the Bishops.