› added 2 years ago

313

TIL that walnut trees produce a chemical called juglone that prevents tomatoes from producing fruit.

Read more melindamyers.com

via reddit.com

GKV1 TIL that the Dance Fever of 1518 was a month-long plague of inexplicable dancing in Strasbourg, in which hundreds of people danced for about a month for no apparent reason. Several of them danced themselves to death.
EBRW TIL the “Share a Coke” campaign—where Coca-Cola replaced its name on bottles with people’s first names —increased Coca-Cola’s U.S. sales by more than 2 percent and, in doing so, helped reverse more than 10 years of decline in Coke consumption in the U.S.
edw4 TIL a man tried to open his own bank. Offering savers 5% interest, cheap loans, and all profits being given to charity. Instead, big banks complained and he was refused his banking license.
L0GZ TIL that in the 60s there was a spin off of The Black Panther Party called The White Panther Party that won a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1972. The court ruled warrantless wiretapping was unlawful under the U.S. Constitution, even in the case where national security was in danger.
VMQGm TIL the Church of Scientology sponsored a car in the 1988 Indy 500. It crashed on the second turn.