› added 2 years ago

84

TIL pineapples take two to three years to grow.

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

grZxL TIL Great white sharks rarely survive in captivity. Experts suspect the electricity in buildings interferes with the animals' electrosensory systems—though that hasn't stopped some aquariums from trying, and failing, to display them.
Qo5k TIL that Southern sweet tea was originally used to show wealth, as tea, ice, and sugar were all very expensive at the time.
OWZR TIL the smell of fresh baked bread has been scientifically studied, discovering that the smell makes people more inclined to help each other
l77K7 TIL of Sakoku, the foreign policy of the Tokugawa Shogunate, which forbade common Japanese citizens to leave the country for a period of 265 years.
kO6Wm TIL there was a vending machine in Seattle, WA, that vended random sodas, but no one knew who owned it, stocked it, or took the money, and now, it has randomly disappeared with a note indicating "Went for a walk."