› added 7 years ago

606

TIL the difference between hardwood and softwood has to do with how they reproduce, not the hardness of the wood, and that balsa wood - one of the softest woods - is a hardwood.

Read more gizmodo.com.au

via ift.tt

69A17 TIL tone deafness is not the genetic opposite of having perfect pitch
KOXQw TIL Ed O'Neill (the father in the Married with Children) is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt.
Oxr1 TIL that all the bridges depicted on Euro banknotes are fictional so as not to show favouritism to member states - but then a guy in Holland decided to build them all.
dDkYK TIL Xijinping has published over 100 books with around 100 million copies sold, raked in at least 500 million yuan(69 million USD) of royalty by a conservative estimate
X01LD TIL Several U.S. states enacted legislation specifically banning Marilyn Manson from performing in state-operated venues.