› added 12 years ago

368

TIL that maple syrup is essentially anti-freeze for trees.

Read more youtube.com

via reddit.com

KOdO9 TIL Joseph Stalin’s real name was Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. He decided to change his name to Stalin in 1902, meaning “steel” in Russian, which he believed would make him appear tough.
g7v9 TIL: Cheese is the most stolen food item in the world
57y8 TIL there is a small island which sole inhabitants are 50-400 indigenous people who keep attacking and killing visitors
B55D TIL a gay penguin couple was given an egg of their own after the biological penguin parents abandoned it and the adopted parents are doing an amazing job of raising their new baby
Bg6Rd TIL that during World War II, the British Royal Navy used specially trained dolphins to detect underwater mines and enemy submarines.