› added 6 days ago

14

TIL that the Arctic tern migrates up to 71,000 km (44,000 miles) per year, traveling from the Arctic to Antarctica and back experiencing nearly 24 hours of daylight for most of its life

Read more carstenegevang.com

via reddit.com

GY9DQ TIL William Wrigley Jr. began by selling soap and offered baking powder as an incentive to buy it. Finding the baking powder more popular, he switched to selling it instead and gave his customers gum as incentive. Again, he found that the gum was more popular and began to sell it instead.
m1dax TIL Robert Iger personally worked on Shanghai Disney for 17 years and experienced every show and ride multiple times before it opened. He was asked by Michael Eisner in 1999 to start discussions with the Chinese government and he picked to build it in Shanghai
4X5ZJ TIL that the smallest ‘country’ in the world are actually two buildings with extraterritorial status in Rome represented as the Sovereign Military Order of Malta; the Order has existed for almost a thousand years, they have diplomatic relations with 110 countries and are observers to the UN
N7PLJ TIL When it snows in the Netherlands, Dutch police look for cannabis growers by spotting rooftops without snow
PYv9e TIL The Ramones named their band as tribute to Paul McCartney early days with The Beatles when he was known as Paul Ramone