› added 9 years ago

372

TIL vegetables in Alaska grow gigantic because they receive 20 hours of sunlight a day

Read more npr.org

via reddit.com

VBam TIL Prostitution is legal in Canada
4XEVa TIL about the Oh-My-God Particle, a proton traveling at about 99.99999999999999999999951% the speed of light. It is the fastest moving object ever recorded and as it hit the atmosphere it carried the kinetic energy equivalent to a baseball traveling at 50MPH, all in one particle.
WkLbA TIL the last words of 22nd and 24th U.S president Grover Cleveland, “I have tried so hard, to do so right.” Reported by his biographers shortly after a heart attack.
xV0g TIL Malcolm X copied every entry in the dictionary and read it out loud to become a better reader and writer.
Jprv TIL there’s a brown bear on California’s state flag but the last brown bear in California was killed in 1922