› added 12 years ago

172

TIL that Ed Zahn accidentally aged a block of cheddar cheese for 40 years.

Read more chicagoreader.com

via reddit.com

e0dan TIL the ice cream flavor Rocky Road was named after the October 1929 stock market crash, in the sense that "it will be a rocky road ahead"
l76DK TIL McDonald's waged a 26 year unsuccessful legal battle against a man named Ronald McDonald and his McDonald's Family Restaurant
m1Ley TIL that Booth No. 17, located at New York City's Grand Central Terminal, was once the most used pay phone, if not the most used phone in general, in the world
ep4Yk TIL about Three Identical Strangers, a pair of triplets who were secretly separated at birth and sent to different families to study child development.
D15Mp TIL that the final section of the U.S. government's report on 9/11 was classified when it was released, and remained so until 2016. This section stated that the 9/11 hijackers received funding from individuals connected to the Saudi government, which the U.S. had kept secret for 15 years.