› added 4 years ago

194

TIL Not only can you eat dandelions raw(or make a tea etc.), but that they are pretty nutritious and can even stimulate digestion / bile flow.

Read more bonappetit.com

via reddit.com

7oJL TIL there have been 14 known fatalities in Britain from native adder bites since 1876. Recovery from a bite can take up to a year.
LkPrm TIL the Pistol Shrimp can snap it's claw so fast that it fires "bubble bullets" which can travel at 105 feet per second, reach 210 decibels, temperatures of 8,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and also, a flash of light.
W9bB TIL that in a small town in california, a dog ran for mayor and won
4kRWa TIL that DC published in 1999 the anthology comic Elseworlds 80-Page Giant, which had most of its copies recalled and destroyed because one story, titled "Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter", had a baby Clark Kent climbing into a microwave.
W71VA TIL that the oldest letter in a bottle is 132 years old and was thrown by German sailing barque Paula as part of a long-term German oceanographic experiment