› added 2 years ago

132

TIL that oyster farming dates back more than 2,000 years to the Romans and that one acre of an oyster farm can filter up to 72 million litres of water per day.

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

e0VKJ TIL that the smell of the air after a storm is caused by Geosmin: A chemical released by dead soil bacteria. Humans are hyper sensitive to it, capable of detecting at a concentration of 5 parts per trillion. It's theorised in our evolutionary past this helped us seek out water.
kO8Jm TIL that when Frank Zappa's first son was born the hospital refused to register the name Dweezil, so Frank named him Ian Donald Calvin Euclid Zappa, after a few of his musician friends, and just called him Dweezil until his son was 5 and it was changed legally.
MDgm TIL neuroscientist James Fallon discovered he was a psychopath while studying brain scans to search for patterns that correlated with psychopathic behavior.
m1NER TIL of the longest tail-back in history — cars moved at 2 miles per day
YpePx TIL about Ralph Lauren, the billionaire fashion mogul. His last name was Lifshitz but he changed it to Lauren when he was 16 because it had the word 'shit' in it and other children used to make fun of him.