› added 12 years ago

382

TIL that “runner’s high” is chemically equivalent to smoking marijuana.

Read more m.npr.org

via reddit.com

d80bZ TIL the largest known credit card purchase was $170 million on an AmEx Black Card. The purchaser and his family could fly first class for life with the points alone.
69Wrw TIL after AC/DC vocalist Bon Scott died of alcohol poisoning, the band considered disbanding. Scott's parents requested that they not disband. So they hired Brian Johnson as their new frontman and made Back in Black, which became the second best selling album of all time
NX4YE TIL that India has a very rare river shark called the Ganges River Shark, which only has 240 individuals left in the world.
wLjgP TIL There is no age limit to be the House Speaker, you just have to be a US Citizen to be 3rd in the line of succession.
j61gj TIL that China operates only on one time zone