› added 11 months ago

78

TIL Florida is a major producer of Norfolk Island pine seedlings, but it is common practice there to spray-paint the trees and some treat them as "disposable plants".

Read more groundedandgrowing.com

via reddit.com

9w05Q TIL that in October 1972, Nick Begich, a member of the US Congress representing Alaska, died in a plane crash. Despite this, he still stood in the November 1972 general election and won, defeating 2nd place Don Young by over 7 percentage points.
Y5Gr TIL that a woman once tried to smuggle suitcases made out of 15 kilos of cocaine into Spain.
9YJ1p TIL that Joko Widodo, the current President of Indonesia, likes hard rock music a lot - he once had a bass guitar that was signed by Robert Trujillo, was given a signed copy of "Master of Puppets" by a former Danish President, and went to a rock festival in 2013 while he was Governor of Jakarta.
v1x6x TIL there is only one Talbot Tagora car remaining in the UK, and even that one hasn't been on the road since 2016.
7rbYX TIL: Pheromone in baby mouse tears makes female mice less interested in sex.