› added 4 years ago

223

TIL a Colombian man died because a tapeworm inside him got cancer.

Read more nature.com

via reddit.com

xblo TIL that in 1957, the BBC aired an April Fools segment showing a family harvesting spaghetti from the family spaghetti tree. When viewers asked how they could grow their own, they were told to place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best.
X0Dn6 TIL: 1 PB (petabyte) of data, if written on DVDs, would create roughly 223,100 DVDs, i.e., a stack about 878 feet tall, or a stack of CDs a mile high.
E6EV TIL that in 1983 Mr. T was the White House’s Santa Clause.
5VKZD TIL the piece of paper on top of a Hershey kiss is called a niggly wiggly
W79X9 TIL in the Siege of Arrah 1857, an army of 11000 Indians failed to defeat the besieged 50 British soldiers and 18 civilians