› added 2 years ago

70

TIL: The wires helping hold up antenna and poles are not "guide wires" by actually "guy-wires"

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

4Xr75 TIL: Pesto can be made with Cashews. If you have allergies, don’t forget to read the label.
0w6PN TIL that during the Great Depression of the 1930s, women turned their flour sacks into into dresses, underwear, towels, curtains, quilts, and other household necessities. So flour companies started packing their flour in bags with pretty patterns.
XL1R TIL in 1945 a group of Soviet school children presented a US Ambassador with a carved US Seal as a gesture of friendship. It hung in his office for 7 years before discovering it contained a listening device.
vP0GL TIL that from June 2004 to November 2005, Phil Collins embarked on his "First Final Farewell Tour", a reference to the multiple farewell tours of other popular artists
69BKm TIL that in the 60's the Italian Ministry of Education broadcasted a TV show titled "It’s Never Too Late", aimed to teach older people how to read and write. An estimate of 1.5 million people got their elementary school diploma thanks to it.