› added 11 months ago

72

TIL root beer tastes unpleasantly like mouthwash to people outside of North America

Read more dvo.com

via reddit.com

MmD7 TIL: Nirvana were around less than 1/3 of the time of Foo Fighters but sold almost 3 times as many records
gM5BW TIL that square academic caps are called mortarboards, because it looks similar to the mortarboard used by brickmasons to hold mortar
loyaK TIL that there is a Guinness World Record for the tallest stack of M&M's. Will Cutbill currently holds the record of 5 M&M’s.
LE5v TIL that “Washington Monument Syndrome” refers to the habit of governmet agencies to shut down their most visible and valued services first when facing a budget shortfall, to gain support for tax increases the public would otherwise be against.
vneK TIL - Netherlands has a plan where flooding the country could be used as a defence strategy and this can easily be done by destroying various flood defences in case of attack by a foreign country.