› added 4 years ago

130

TIL in the 1950s there used to be a bus route between London and Calcutta, India

Read more gettyimages.in

via reddit.com

8r5a TIL that in 2007 Russian scientists found a cache of 32,000 year old fruit 38 meters(125 ft.) below the permafrost in Siberia that were still viable and when planted grew to be healthy, seed producing plants.
d8LnE TIL that the quietest room in the world is so absolutely noiseless, you can hear the beating of your heart within the deathly silence.
rlZ1 TIL that when Voltaire was asked to renounce Satan on his deathbed, his last words were: “Now is not the time for making enemies.”
9lQQ TIL a passerby flipped off the camera when they were filming the intro for the pilot of “Louie,” and they kept it in the final cut because Louis C.K. thought it was a sign from the universe that they would get to be on TV.
xDAB TIL black cats are considered to bring good luck in Japan.