› added 11 years ago

157

TIL Pluto is smaller than Russia

Read more tinybytes.me

via reddit.com

rNGax TIL That worldwide the daily consumption of Coca Cola is at 2.6 billion servings, or approximately 11000 soft drinks per second.
neKgW TIL that Linus Pauling, the extremely smart scientist who claimed Vitamin C would treat the common cold, prolong your life, and cure cancer, died in 1994 due to prostate cancer, a disease that he said vitamins would cure.
7rmAb TIL the first ever film rated "PG-13" by the MPAA was Red Dawn in 1984, Before that it went straight from PG to Rated R
W74P9 TIL that only 48.5% of adults reported reading at least one book in the past year, down from 52.7% five years earlier and 54.6% ten years prior.
nZl9 TIL Olympic gold medals are only 1% gold and 92.5% silver. They would be worth over $25k if they were pure gold but instead the medal value is only approximately $600.