› added 9 years ago

176

TIL that green olives are the same as black olives, but green olives are picked before ripening and black olives are picked while ripe

Read more marksdailyapple.com

via reddit.com

BLjr TIL that The Pillars of Creation (as photographed by the Hubble telescope) don’t exist anymore. They were destroyed 1,000 yrs ago by an advancing supernova, but the light takes 7,000 yrs to reach us so they still appear intact.
ZDOY TIL During college, Anderson Cooper spent two summers as an intern at the Central Intelligence Agency. Although he has no formal journalistic education, he opted to pursue a career in journalism rather than stay with the agency after school.
bDXZ TIL English words for livestock (cow, sheep, chicken) are Germanic-based and the words for meats (beef, mutton, poultry) are French-based. This is because the people who raised the animals were Anglo-Saxon peasants and the people who ate them were Norman aristocrats.
lkg1 TIL There’s a nursing home in Seattle with a childcare center inside. The kids do activities with the residents so they can learn about the elderly and how to accept people with disabilities, and the seniors can feel less isolated by playing with children every day.
e5R6 TIL That pistachios can spontaneously combust.