› added 4 years ago

119

TIL: Bees indirectly led to the discovery of New York's largest marijuana Farm underneath a Brooklyn cherry factory

Read more firstwefeast.com

via reddit.com

p8wjG TIL if you don’t pay a hotel bill in Ontario, there is a law that says that hotel can sell your horse
016y TIL that the dots in microwave oven doors are to keep radiation from escaping. This is accomplished because the dots are smaller than the wavelength of the radiation in question, creating essentially a faraday cage.
Z8Dxp TIL about Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. Had he remained the sole owner of his creation, he could have easily become the world’s first trillionaire. However, Berners-Lee graciously decided to hand over the Web to the world, no strings attached.
4kn5o TIL that when Gallup conducted a survey in 1944 asking Americans "What do you think we should do with Japan after the war?" 13% favored "Killing off" all the Japanese, 33% thought it should be split up or destroyed while the rest favored either supervision or rehabilitation.
bW74 TIL Stanley Kubrick considered both Robert De Niro and Robin Williams for the lead role of Jack Torrance in The Shining. Kubrick didn’t think De Niro would suit the part as he deemed De Niro not psychotic enough. He deemed Williams too psychotic for the role.