› added 1 year ago

36

TIL humans have been eating pistachios for approximately 8,750 years.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

0pe1 TIL President Kennedy was the the last presidential candidate to win the presidency without carrying Ohio.
VBL58 TIL Eminem is an Oscar winner
VJJ0 Today I learned that scientists proved in a study that the bond between people and their dogs is similar to the way people bond with their children, which explains the deep attachments formed to pets.
9MOm TIL that when Jefferson sent Lewis & Clark on their 1804 expedition across the American West, they all still very much believed in the potential of encountering living mammoths. This was because, at the time, people still refused that God would ever let anything go extinct.
wL9GP TIL if you allow bacteria like E. coli to grow in food, you can cook the E. coli out but you can't cook out all the toxins they leave behind, which make you horribly sick after consumption.