› added 2 years ago

71

TIL Charles Strite invented pop-up toaster (and nothing else) out of frustration. At the time, bread had to be turned manually in order to toast both sides, which resulted in cafeterias serving burnt toast most of the time.

Read more toaster.report

via reddit.com

jvaa TIL Mary Anning, the first female paleontologist, is the girl referenced in the rhyme “she sells sea shells by the sea shore” after she discovered the first ichthyosaur at age 12 while collecting shells on the beach.
mx9kv TIL the title of Led Zeppelin's song "Black Dog," which reached the charts in several countries, was inspired by a black Labrador Retriever without a name that lingered and wandered around the Headley Grange recording studios when the band were recording the album the song's on.
vPjJL TIL That Andrea Evans, who played Tina Lord on One Life to Live, withdrew from public life for almost a decade after dealing with a stalker who tried to kill her in the ABC Studios where the soap was filmed.
KOd0G TIL that there is an Island off of Scotland where wallabies have happily inhabited and adapted to the climate there since the 1940s
XExMj TIL of the Chagossians, an ethnic group who lived on an isolated island chain until they were evicted by the UK so that the US could build a military base.