› added 4 years ago

52

TIL there are 8 films in the 'Beethoven' (franchise)

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

Kn89 TIL there are more trees on earth than stars in the milky way…..with Canada, Siberia, and Scandinavia the “lungs of the planet.”
9pM7 TIL Facebook engineers originally wanted to call the “Like” button the “Awesome” button.
pYroe TIL that when J.R.R. Tolkien was asked what he thought about Frank Herbert’s novel Dune, he replied he disliked it “with some intensity” and said it wouldn’t be fair to say anything negative about another working author.
ky4g TIL all figs are pollinated by wasps as they are basically inverted flowers and can’t be pollinated otherwise. If it’s a female plant the wasp can’t escape and the fig plant slowly digests the wasp’s body with enzymes. So all edible figs have a digested wasp in them.
VPED TIL Nazis performed human experiments on twins, including but not limited to, sewing them together to make conjoined twins.