› added 4 years ago

66

TIL Peanuts are one of the rare plants that sow their own seeds in a process called Geocarpy

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

yVNOp TIL when the Apollo 13 Saturn IVB upper stage impacted the Moon, the impact was picked up by seismometers put in place during Apollo 12.
ADyQd TIL about a Buddhist God(Guanyin, Kannon) whom was originally a male, can turn into a male/female/genderless depending on the problems he/she/they had to solve
rLvd TIL of Unit 731, a covert Japanese research group that carried out human experimentation during WWII to study chemical and biological warfare. The are considered to be responsible for some of the worst war crimes in history for the tens of thousand who died during the experiments.
gAeL TIL an Athenian law-maker was smothered to death by gifts of cloaks and hats showered upon him by appreciative citizens at a theatre.
Edg7 TIL That in 2006 one of Saddam Hussein’s Generals who defected wrote a book about the operation to move WMDs from Iraq to Syria before the US invasion.