› added 6 years ago

234

TIL that Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, President and General of the Mexican Army that won the battle of the Alamo, introduced the United States to chewing gum when he returned years later as a businessman.

Read more uh.edu

via reddit.com

OnlR TIL that carrots aren’t actually good for your eyes… it’s just a myth that the British government fabricated during WWII. They wanted to keep their newly developed radar system secret from the Germans and had to find some way to explain how they were suddenly shooting down a lot more planes.
GYlV4 TIL Louis Pasteur, the scientist who discovered pasteurization, originally did not experiment with milk, but beer.
K80w TIL Jason Voorhees has been unmasked and featured a different looking face in nearly every Friday the 13th film
VMjMD TIL: Warfarin was initially used as a rat poison, until a failed suicide attempt demonstrated its safety in humans.
b0g0 TIL Members of the Church of Satan do not worship or believe in Satan, and their High Priest said “Anybody who believes in supernatural entities on some level is insane”