› added 12 years ago

746

TIL That a Galapagos tortoise that died in 2006 at Steve Irwin’s zoo was originally owned as a pet by Charles Darwin in 1835.

Read more nbcnews.com

via reddit.com

x6kjo TIL The little green and red traffic light men in southern Taiwan have got themselves girlfriends. The street crossings feature the animated red man kneeling down to propose to his girlfriend, and the green man holding his girlfriend's hand and crossing the road.
v4G4 TIL a town in Ireland hosts a fair in which a goat is crowned king for 3 days and hoisted on a 40 foot pedestal.
R7gd8 TIL The recipe for Tootsie Rolls calls for the previous day’s batch to be mixed in with the new batch each day. Theoretically, this means there’s a bit of the very first Tootsie Rolls in every new roll made today. They were created in 1907.
oR9er TIL: The rectangular design of today’s modern tennis court began in 1875. Before that, tennis courts had an hourglass shape, wide at the ends and narrow at the net.
Y7JAA TIL Steve from Blues Clues didn’t actually draw the clues