Home
Random
Trending
Today
16
posts added
Search
› added
1 year ago
60
TIL cleveland has an abandon subway system
Read more
onlyinyourstate.com
via
reddit.com
AD0dd
TIL that Left-brain vs. Right-brain dominance is a myth. Lateralization is unique in every individual and researchers can not find any evidence that one side of the brain or another works by itself for functions of our personalities.
NX4ab
TIL the 1995 film 'Casino' contains about seven times more dialogue than the average movie
BrwBb
TIL a South African man plans to tow an iceberg from Antarctica to provide drinking water to 4 million people. After facing droughts limiting water usage, the 125 million ton, 70 story tall iceberg would supply 20% of Cape Town’s water needs for a year.
4mw5
TIL: Coconut crabs are so adapt and hearty to living on the land that they can live up to 60 years and will drown if submerged in water for too long. They also can climb trees and will do so for coconuts which they eat.
VMeEQ
TIL plants often grow more after being watered with rainwater compared to regular water. Lightning in the atmosphere produces bio-available organic compounds (nitrates and ammonium, found in fertilizers) from the inert Nitrogen gas found in air, which then get dissolved in raindrops