› added 10 years ago

82

TIL that strawberries are in the same plant family as roses

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

VM9pm TIL about the Darwin's frog. The males of this small Chilean frog swallow the embryos to finish the tadpoles development inside their vocal sac. The "pregnant dad" does not eat for around six weeks until the froglets move to the mouth and get out
pYZMb TIL Stan Lee is the highest box-office grossing actor, in any role, of all time at $30,601,574,433 across 50 films
R7w09 TIL of Thierville, France, unique in that there is no local war memorial. Starting from the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-71, through both World Wars, the First Indochina War (1946-54) & Algerian War (1954-62), all the soldiers from Thierville who took part in those conflicts came home alive.
XE65j TIL about a festival in nepal that worship dogs once a year for their loyality
BgvAy TIL that in 1980, Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore warned Australia it was on track to become the ‘poor white trash of Asia’ if it didn’t open up its economy. Australia did open its economy, thrived, and has very close and friendly relations with Singapore.