› added 11 years ago

72

TIL there was chinese herbalist who, some believed, lived to be 256 years old

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

DQaae TIL there’s a polish group of LARPers that recreate a small Ohio trailer park that features supernatural events; inspired by stranger things and x files.
R70G1 TIL a psychology professor taught his sheepdog to recognize more than 1000 different toys by name. The dog could even infer names by discerning which toy it did not recognize.
Z8bdo TIL that IKEA, the Swedish furniture chain, is actually pronounced "ee-kay-uh", not "eye-kee-uh"
VBGPZ TIL Nauru has the highest obesity rate in the world (94.5% overweight, 71.7% obese), caused by the rapid adoption of Western diets after the phosphate mining boom. Traditional diets of fresh fish and vegetables were replaced by processed foods—with devastating health effects.
R7vm8 TIL the band The Band was formed in Canada and made up of mostly Canadians