› added 8 years ago

148

TIL 1.9 billion Coca Colas are sold per day. That’s over 74 million kgs of sugar/day just for the world’s Coke consumption.

Read more coca-colacompany.com

via ift.tt

yLev TIL that there is a growing problem with keeping parrots as pets. As they are not domesticated, and their lifespan can be up to 70+ years, thousands are abandoned over the years. Incidentally, this problem increased when more people wanted to have an intelligent parrot like Alex as a pet.
KOgWJ TIL that Frankie Muniz has suffered two strokes, has suffered significant memory loss, including losing memories from his childhood acting days.
mXnx TIL that a 92 yr old man has pirated over 300,000 copies of DVDs for soldiers in combat
Egr7P TIL 12th President Zachary Taylor’s only son served as a Confederate general during the U.S. Civil War
d8Pp7 TIL There is an extant virus in the same genus as smallpox called Monkeypox which can also infect humans and causes a disease that looks like a milder version of smallpox, with a death rate of up to 10%