› added 1 year ago

62

TIL the United States Bureau of Land Management released a promotional hip-hop song and music video in the 1990s.

Read more youtube.com

via reddit.com

JZdB TIL that dating was such a novelty in the early 1900s that women were often misperceived as prostitutes and arrested for letting a man buy them dinner
78V7p TIL that honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are still edible after over 3,000 years.
xVZY7 TIL that in 1979 the Soviets tried to poison the Afghan president but it didn't work because he drank Coca-Cola, which carbonation diluted the poison.
GVlj TIL: Gamers in Antarctica have used 137.4MB of Steam’s bandwidth.
7rNnb TIL there's a good amount of evidence suggesting that ageing and likelihood of dying kind of plateaus at about 105 years of age - Late-life Mortality Deceleration.