› added 4 years ago

113

TIL 'The Butter Tart' (French: tarte au beurre) Is Canadian in origin and considered one of Canada's quintessential treats.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

DQJgp TIL Sony Pictures failed to adapt Michael Lewis' best-selling book Flash Boys into a movie because of their apprehension with having an Asian lead actor, as revealed in private emails leaked in the 2014 Sony Pictures hack.
4eN TIL Canada has nearly twice as many indigenous people as Brazil
m9Rv TIL the Pan-American Highway doesn’t actually connect North America and South America, there is a 100 mile gap of swampland and forest between Panama and Colombia with no roads, inhabited by drug runners
xjGg TIL that in Saudi Arabi a 19-year-old gang rape victim was sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in jail for the crime of “indecency” and “speaking to the press”
8owL TIL 47,000 Quaking Aspen trees in the Wasatch Mountains, Utah, United States, have been shown to be a single clone connected by the root system. It is sometimes considered the world’s largest organism by mass, covering 106 acres