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TIL: in 1978 Tim Allen nearly spent life in prison for trafficking cocaine.

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dDmeQ TIL virtually all of the communion wafers that are distributed in churches in the United States are made by a single for-profit company.
7rvyr Today I learned about the "Wood Wide Web", which is how trees not only "communicate" information to one another, but also share nutrients and they can even sabotage each other via this network of roots and fungi.
78r5Z TIL that the sun actually puts off white light and it only looks yellow to us because of our atmosphere scattering blue light away (which is why the sky looks blue)
PY9wV TIL Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer accidentally consumed a drink laced with sleeping pills, intended for a guest. When we woke, he found that his victim-to-be had burgled several of his personal items
6n6Q TIL there is a stadium in Brazil in which the midfield line lies on the Equator, making each team defend one hemisphere.