› added 10 years ago

757

TIL the oldest living plant is at least 43,000 years old

Read more abc.net.au

via reddit.com

yVBkv TIL the famous evangelist Kathryn Kuhlman married an already married man leading to massive controversy in early U.S. After their divorce 7 years later, she stated she actually wasn't married to him because she had fainted while saying her vows during the ceremony.
rN950 TIL about Frank Hann, an Australian explorer who collected the cut off ears of Aboriginal people and kept their sliced off heads as souvenirs
kOkB1 TIL penicillin was first able to be mass-produced from a moldy cantaloupe found in Peoria, Illinois
R7j9w TIL in 2019 Zimbabwe spent £118,000 on 64 judges' wigs from a London based company
OQJY TIL that a 50s scientist tried to teach dolphins to talk, only to discover that they really love handjobs.