› added 4 years ago

148

TIL that helicopter downwash is used to shake the water off of cherries after rain so they do not swell and split before harvest.

Read more blog.aopa.org

via reddit.com

ybxe TIL that Get Smart’s hilarious Don Adams served honorably as a Marine during WWII and fought on Guadalcanal, the only survivor of his platoon. Later, he served as a Drill Instructor. Ooh Rah Mr. Adams on this Memorial Day!
7y6O TIL Nectarines are just mutant peaches
0w06y TIL that after its independence and the freeing of its enormous slave population, France forced Haiti to compensate slave owners for the theft of property (the slaves), a debt lasting over 100 years which was paid off finally on 1947.
kZZ5 TIL that celebrating Christmas is punishable by five-year imprisonment in Brunei
E1DPW TIL that in 2005, Houston was struck by Hurricane Rita, which resulted in 3.7m people evacuating the area. The evacuation caused a traffic jam that spanned 100 miles, lasted days, and killed dozens of people. Hurricane Rita then ended up changing course and only dealt Houston a glancing blow.