› added 4 years ago

86

TIL that caffeine, THC, nicotine, capsaicin (hot peppers,) theobromine (tea,) are natural insecticides. Yet humans find them delicious.

Read more laidbackgardener.blog

via reddit.com

9YD56 TIL there was only one American who earned a medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics that was boycotted by the U.S - Mike Sylvester, who played the Italian basketball team
JkAl TIL That the Bank of England only owns two of the ~400,000 gold bars in its vaults.
BggvD TIL that the most requested funeral song in England is by Monty Python.
XEJJr TIL Muhammad Ali lost his heavyweight title, got his passport revoked and faced a five-year prison term for not wanting to join the US Army in the Vietnam War. "I ain't got no quarrel with those Vietcong," he said. "They never called me n****r."
Z1bv TIL that there was a sculptor named Anna Coleman Ladd who directed a mask-making studio in Paris where she sculpted masks to be worn by men who had been badly disfigured during WWI, and made to resemble the soldiers’ former selves.