› added 12 years ago

122

TIL an Arnold Palmer plus vodka is a John Daly.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

xV0eg TIL about Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl, who among other things, sailed from the west coast of Africa to Barbados in a papyrus reed boat.
dpW7 TIL that Jupiter is so massive that rather than orbiting the Sun, they both orbit a point in space between them.
KYggG TIL that The first known book to be printed with removable metal type is a Buddhist treatise printed in Korea in 1377, seventy-eight years before the Gutenberg Bible.
OGZQa TIL Tsugumi Ohba, the writer of Death Note and Bakuman, admitted they never thought they would become a manga author, expecting Weekly Shonen Jump to pass on Death Note.
5X4k TIL That Coca leaves are still used in Coca Cola. A company in NJ extracts Cocaine from the leaves for medical uses, then ships the remainder to Coke