› added 1 year ago

54

TIL Coriander and Cilantro are the same thing

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

ANLXa TIL of sky burial, a funeral practice in which a corpse is placed on a mountaintop and left to decompose or be eaten by vultures.
lmKN TIL that artificial sweeteners like Splenda contain sugar but can call themselves “zero calorie” because the FDA allows rounding down of the caloric content because of the small package sizes
dE9 TIL “Jesus” and “Joshua” are the same name in Greek. Jesus Christ means “Joshua the Annointed”
9wERG TIL that after reading Rutherford’s paper on atomic disintegration, Henry Adams wrote in 1902 : “At this rate, thought will be overturned; law replaced by force [...] explosives will reach cosmic violence.” Less than 50 years later, the first nuclear bomb exploded in New Mexico, July 16, 1945.
d8olr TIL the Lockheed U-2 spy plane, famous for conducting covert reconnaissance during the Cold War, is still in active service after 65 years, being used for military and scientific missions.