› added 9 years ago

216

TIL that James Blunt sings the first line “My life is brilliant” of You’re Beautiful twice in the beginning of the song because he mistimed it. It was left in the final recordings.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

rNXP1 TIL that the seedless bananas that we consume are called Cavendish bananas and they will go extinct in the next decade due to a fungus called Panama disease.
X0vLE TIL: Oral ingestion of Visine warrants immediate medical attention or a call to a poison control center
ldLr TIL the world’s largest pyramid is hidden under a mountain in Mexico and has a base four times larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza.
7raAP TIL former Mafia hitman Frank Sheeran confessed on his deathbed that he was the one who murdered union leader Jimmy Hoffa, his close friend, under orders from the mob. Martin Scorsese is currently filming a movie on this.
KWnw TIL Cats have kidneys so efficient that they can rehydrate on seawater.