› added 9 years ago

709

TIL Red M&Ms were discontinued for 11yrs due to consumer fright & were ONLY brought back because of a joke that took off.

Read more wbir.com

via reddit.com

O7PY TIL of a woman who presented a forged doctor’s note as an excuse for missing her sentencing for, that’s right, forgery.
rNKEx TIL the first eyeglasses were made in Central Italy around the year 1290 (the exact date is debated),
XEedE TIL Disney perpetuated the myth that lemmings commit suicide by importing lemmings, throwing them into a river, and letting them drown.
lnlK TIL: You can theoretical cut up a ball into a number of finite parts and reassemble it into 2 identical balls through the Banach-Tarski Paradox
4P9R TIL fungi are genetically more closely related to animals than to plants.