› added 3 months ago

104

TIL the world’s longest wedding dress train is 8,095.40 meters, which is almost long enough to reach Mount Everest at 8,850 meters.

Read more guinnessworldrecords.com

via reddit.com

N7Bbe TIL that the Mona Lisa was not widely known until it was stolen by a man named Vincenzo Peruggia in 1911 and recovered three years later
oRYv8 TIL Forensic entomology is a field of forensic science that uses insects found on corpses to help solve criminal cases.
GAnZg TIL Liquid smoke is not just a flavoring, it is actual condensed smoke in liquid form. It still carries some anti-microbial properties of smoke and can be used to preserve things like live stock feed. It also lacks some carcinogenic elements of smoke like PAH (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons).
0BlM TIL that Anna Jarvis, founder of Mother’s Day holiday, later became unhappy with its commercialization and began organizing a petition to rescind Mother’s Day. She was placed in a sanitarium, and people connected with the floral and greeting card industries paid the bills to keep her there.
rNG4e TIL the original Super Mario 2 was deemed too difficult & included things like poisonous mushrooms & warps backwards,. This became "The Lost Levels' while the American market received a ported version of a game called Doki Doki Panic rebranded to "Super Mario 2"