› added 2 years ago

71

TIL the Walt Disney Company neither owns nor operates Tokyo Disneyland

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

Mea8 TIL the Jalapeno Pepper is actually red, and is picked before it is ripe when it is green.
d8AGQ Rich people are buying up dinosaurs because museums are too poor to get them.
nW0BB TIL about Nahwa, a village in the UAE, surrounded by an Omani territory, which is surrounded by the UAE
R59Q8 TIL that when mating, the female Serromyia biting midge (no-see-um) drives her tongue like a drill into the male's head, pumping him full of acid. His insides melt, and she sucks him dry. The male's genitals break off, blocking the female from future mating.
R7VNa TIL of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery by travelling openly from Macon, Georgia to Boston. Ellen, who was light skinned, dressed as a man with a sling to hide the fact that she could not write and passed as William's slave owner. Eventually, they fled to Liverpool, England.