Home
Random
Trending
Today
20
posts added
Search
› added
1 year ago
61
TIL that it's actually possible to communicate with plants
Read more
youtube.com
via
reddit.com
KOe9Q
TIL of 'Taxus voor hoop', a Dutch initiative to collect pruning leftovers of Yew trees/bushes from gardens to produce cancer treatment drugs
mb9p
TIL in 1953 a hotel drained their pool after black actress, Dorothy Dandridge, touched the water
V7pm
TIL that the term “grandfathered in” originated from Jim Crow laws which allowed men to be exempt from literacy tests and poll taxes if their grandfather was eligible to vote prior to 1866, effectively ensuring many illiterate white men could still vote, while black men couldn’t.
OoAe4
TIL Jersey Mike’s Subs is named after a local New Jersey shop named Mike’s Submarines, and not after the owner and CEO Peter Cancro.
R4a4
TIL the poverty line in America was designed assuming every family had a housewife who was a skillful cook.