› added 11 years ago

107

TIL there is an abandoned island at Disney World called Discovery Island that 3 guys swam to and found preserved snakes in coke bottles + more eerie stuff

Read more shaneperez.blogspot.com

via reddit.com

8ak7Z TIL the Mercedes-Benz G-Class was developed as a result of a suggestion to develop a military vehicle by the Shah of Iran, who at the time was a significant shareholder of the company.
5YpMk TIL Mature Douglas Fir trees can send sugar to saplings via miles of underground, gossamer-thin mycorrhizal fungi. Birches can loan carbon to fir trees in the summer, while firs pay it back in fall. Trees of different species can share nitrogen leached from salmon leftovers from a bear's lunch.
Z8xgQ TIL Keanu Reeves turned down $11 million to do Speed 2 and instead toured with his band and took the title role in a 1995 Manitoba Theatre Centre production of Hamlet in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
awYKb TIL that thousands of years ago, Madagascar was home to lemurs the size of gorillas
VMMR8 TIL Humans actually emit light (but very dim)