› added 11 months ago

44

TIL that we have taste receptors in our hearts

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

ADdo4 TIL nuclear blasts bleach everything around it, leaving behind etchings of anything getting in the way of its light, resulting in 'shadows' of people around the blast site
4XNk6 TIL J. K. Rowling wrote a short 800-word prequel to Harry Potter for a charity auction in 2008. 13 authors were asked to write an original work for the auction, and Rowling's piece sold for more than all the other writer's works combined at 25,000 pounds alone.
e0ey5 TIL that during the Soviet Union, government officials made a deal with Pepsi to allow Pepsi into the Soviet Union, being the first foreign product sanctioned for sale in the Soviet Union. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Coca-Cola was favored because Pepsi was associated with the Soviet Union.
69V9Q TIL, that already 5 people are cured from HIV 💪🏽
l75L1 TIL there was a group that created a sperm bank exclusively containing the semen of Nobel Prize winners, hoping to selectively give birth to the next generation of geniuses.