› added 6 years ago

81

TIL The US has more land suitable for producing maple syrup than Canada does, and only a small geographic portion of Canada is suitable to grow sugar maples.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

b6o90 TIL Warren Buffet whose net worth is around $100B today, didn't reach $1B until he was in his 50s
b9KW4 TIL Only 2% of NCAA athletes move on to the professional level.
xVKPB TIL -Alexa commercials are intentionally muted in the 3,000Hz to 6,000Hz range of the audio spectrum, which tips off the system that the “Alexa” phrase being spoken isn’t in fact a real command and should be ignored
bD5a TIL that chipotle peppers are just smoke-dried jalapeños.
DQE5g TIL in 1963 Marco Ruiz became the only baseball pitcher to both win AND lose the same game. This happened when he started pitching a game that ended up being postponed. He was traded to the opposing team and was the last pitcher when the game resumed at a later date.