› added 11 years ago

173

TIL Burger King’s New French Fries Took Ten Years to Develop

Read more thedailybeast.com

via reddit.com

oRWwL TIL compared to their overall weight, koalas have among of the smallest brains of any animal. They are so dumb that they cannot identify leaves as food and refuse to consume them when they are placed on a flat surface as opposed to branches.
kJdw4 TIL That the first drilling rig to find gas in the UK North Sea, also collapsed 2 months later killing 13 people, making it the first accident in the North Sea, and was the worst accident until Piper Alpha.
bOB4 TIL Peter The Great accepted his wife be executed after she killed her newborn baby. When he showed up at the execution, the crowd assumed he’d stop the execution, but instead he watched her executed, kissed her detached head and used it to explain to the crowd the intracacies of neck anatomy.
EGjw TIL that the Andromeda galaxy is larger than the moon in the sky, but it is usually too dim to see.
wQ4J TIL children under the age of 8 are unable to distinguish between television shows and advertisements, drastically improving the effectiveness of advertisements to kids