› added 2 years ago

308

TIL in the mid-1980s there was a Nerds cereal and that the box had two separate compartments and each compartment had its own flavor. It also came with a mail-in offer for a two-sided Nerds bowl that had a "Nerd Gate" that when lifted would allow milk on one side of the bowl to flow into the other.

Read more mrbreakfast.com

via reddit.com

KBa TIL that on 9/12/2001, in a sign of support for the US, Queen Elizabeth directed that the Star Spangled Banner be played instead of what is typically played, breaking a centuries-old tradition for the first time.
KOal9 TIL given a piece of paper large enough and of average thickness (0.1 mm), if you were able to fold it in half 42 times it would reach the moon
JxKj TIL of Clifford Johnson. He held the title of most severely burned person ever to survive, after making 4 trips into the Coconut Grove fire to save his girlfriend - carrying out survivors each time. He later learned his girlfriend had actually escaped earlier. 14 years later he died in a car fire.
nO5d TIL: “Go fever” is a term used by NASA to describe a few of their major disasters (Apollo 1/Challenger/Columbia). It describes a culture that develops when costs have mounted, and dissent is suppressed or ignored (due to group members not wanting to be seen as committed to the team’s progress).
xZa5 TIL red delicious apples used to be yellower, and tasted extremely sweet. However, farmers selectively bred them for redder color (because consumers were drawn to it) and longer shelf-life, destroying the flavor of the Apple.