› added 4 years ago

233

TIL that The smell of fresh-cut grass is a signal of distress.

Read more research.tamu.edu

via reddit.com

N76D6 TIL in 2001 Disney closed one of its waterparks called River COuntry, but instead of tearing it down, Disney chose to leave it there to rot away, abandoned.
66rl TIL A group of elephants is called a “memory”.
N8b8 TIL that when Manfred Von Richthofen(aka the Red Baron) was shot down and killed. The allies gave him a full milatary funeral with honours.
ynWX TIL when selecting a name for the rebellious son in The Simpsons, Matt Groening felt using his own name would be too obvious, so he went with an anagram of ‘brat’: Bart.
woRP TIL when Sequoyah invented the Cherokee syllabary (making reading and writing in Cherokee possible) it became the only time in recorded history that a member of a non-literate people independently created an effective writing system.