› added 10 months ago

37

TIL the inventor of the Pringles can was so proud of the design that he requested to be buried in one.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

dDwd8 TIL About Hart Island. Located in Long Island Sound the island has seen many uses including as a POW camp, as an anti-aircraft missile battery site and a drug rehab facility. However it's primary fame is as NYC's Potter's Field with an estimated one million burials having taken place there.
9w8JX TIL by the time a kid is 13, advertisers will have gathered on average more than 72 million data points about them.
kORRd TIL that in Iceland men would have to to lift a 100 kg stone to hip height to qualify to work on a fishing boat. Some of the original stones still sit on the beach at Djúpalónssandur. This tradition became the inspiration for lifting the Ardblair Stones in Scotland, Iceland, and Wales.
g6oy TIL a man took 23 years to travel to every country and region in the world.
GY9d1 TIL that dolphins get high off puffer fish by holding the fish in their mouths and passing it around between them, causing the fish to release defense toxins which are euphoric in low doses. After they get high, they let the puffer fish go.