› added 9 years ago

166

TIL an art professor from Syracuse University created a single tree that bears 40 different types of fruit after learning that an orchard full of 150-200 year-old native fruit trees was going to be destroyed.

Read more thehigherlearning.com

via reddit.com

YpndW TIL a kidney can be purchased for $650 in Kenya and sold for $200,000 in South Africa.
8eRBK TIL the "red zone and white zone" announcements at the beginning of "Airplane!" were performed by the same real-life married couple that recorded similar announcements at LAX around the time of the film's release.
LQpXP TIL that in recorded history, there has only been a single hurricane in the South Atlantic Ocean to which made landfall. Ever.
VMJY4 TIL in 2007 a NASA astronaut drove 950 miles wearing diapers in order to confront her rival in a love triangle
D15ar TIL That the Vatican actually has a national football team. Vatican's national football team has played against 7 international football teams, which they have either lost or tied with the other team. The team consists only by Swiss guards and museum guards.