› added 4 years ago

96

TIL that the satanic temple has after school Satan clubs

Read more thesatanictemple.com

via reddit.com

OWD6 TIL that jetlag from traveling west is associated with depression, while jetlag from traveling east is associated with mania
AD9Wl TIL: The 2015 French Scrabble champion spoke no french, and instead memorized the French Scrabble dictionary 9 weeks before the tournament.
QeLE TIL that since 2000, the license plates of the District of Columbia (whose residents pay taxes to the federal government, but do not elect representatives or senators to congress) have featured the slogan “Taxation Without Representation”.
DQ16r TIL computer scientist Jean-Marc Salotti calculated that in order to survive, a human colony on Mars would need at least 110 indidivuals. At this number, growth would offset many of the factors that could lead to collapse of the society.
yQmkV TIL not only does the Aztec word that became avocado mean “testicle” (because it grows in pairs), but the fruit was apparently adapted for megafauna like mammoths and giant sloths who would eat it and poop out its unusually large seed in distant locations.