› added 11 years ago

75

TIL in 1954, archaeologists excavating an 8th-century Viking settlement in Sweden found a Buddha statuette from India

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

VMnb8 TIL that cigarette butts are environmentally toxic and the most littered item in the world
BQEk TIL that Nicolas Flamel, said in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone to have been 665 years old and to have created the stone, actually existed, wrote about alchemical secrets, and would have been ~665 years old when the book had been written if he did not die.
RmZ9 TIL that apple seeds contain cyanide. Eating 20 apple cores will kill an adult, while eating less can result in paralysis, coma, and brain damage.
wLo5P TIL: In the 1960's A Russian writer wrote a book about earthlings who travel to the moon, only to discover a "western style" capitalism society, and spend the remains of the book "liberating" the moon inhabitants from the jaws of capitalism via you guessed it, communism
ePw5 TIL Walt Disney planned his own city where everybody would be employed and working for Disney in some way. They would all pay rent for the priviledge of living there and would always be ensured the latest technology in their homes.