› added 4 years ago

76

TIL that the most common supermarket mushrooms (Button, Cremini, and Portabella) are all the same species.

Read more youtu.be

via reddit.com

EgMWP TIL that in 1853, linguist and explorer Richard Francis Burton disguised himself as a Muslim and made the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca which is required of all Muslims. He later wrote a book about his experiences.
9YoA7 TIL That Hippos eat meat, and are not purely herbivores!
DQvRV TIL that interpretations of the film The Shining as referencing treatment of Native Americans, were made as early as 1987 in an essay in The Washington Post.
DlZr TIL that there are fake Harry Potter books written in China using material from other authors, with titles such as “Harry Potter and the Filler of Big” and “Harry Potter and the Chinese Overseas Students at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry”
Egxa0 TIL the Las Vegas Strip, or what people commonly picture as Las Vegas, resides in Paradise, NV – a town immediately south of Las Vegas, NV