› added 4 years ago

242

TIL rats prefer jazz to classical music, when on drugs

Read more classicfm.com

via reddit.com

0jAv TIL that on the last flight of the Concorde, Jeremy Clarkson emptied a glass of water on Piers Morgan.
wo5eP TIL in 1947 Raytheon built the first commercially available microwave oven. It weighed 750 pounds, was water-cooled and cost about US$5,000 ($61,000 in 2021 dollars).
R7Pb9 TIL - UK officials once discussed resettling 5.5m Hong Kong Chinese in Northern Ireland during the height of The Troubles
B7lk TIL in 1912, Japan sent the USA some Japanese Cherry Trees as a sign of their blossoming friendship. After WW2, Japan’s Cherry Trees were weak and sick so the USA sent a bunch of them back to reinvigorate their trees!
lVaK TIL the USDA has given $130 million to Planet Aid, an organization that claims it is helping poor African farmers, but is actually ran by a cult-leader who is hiding out in Mexico in a $20 million condo from the Danish government. Instead of helping, the cult makes the farmers pay from their salary.