› added 5 years ago

70

TIL that one medium McDonald's milk shake contains 630 calories, the same as a whole average dinner meal. One milkshake also contains 90g sugar which is more than your daily maximum recommended sugar intake of around 75g.

Read more fastfoodnutrition.org

via reddit.com

BrBVk TIL that adult Mayflies only live for around a day or so
9YEkp TIL that the current record holder for the tallest pure timber structure in the world is The Mjøstårnet Building, located in Norway. It stands at 85.4 m (280 feet) tall. Buildings having mostly timber structure are called plyscrapers although they are not as tall as steel or concrete skyscrapers.
GAgQ4 TIL Shaquille O’Neal is a dubstep dj that goes by the name DJ Diesel
VBLr0 TIL before World War II, not many married Western men wore wedding rings. During the war though, married men who were serving in the military started to wear them to remind themselves of their wives and families back home, and it became much more common.
N7Oa8 TIL less than 10% of blind people can read Braille