› added 4 years ago

159

TIL That 200 years ago, Robert Gibbon Johnson ate a whole basket of tomatoes outside a courthouse to prove that they were safe to eat and not posionous!

Read more dailytelegraph.com.au

via reddit.com

PYkKE TIL the nickname Dixie, for the southeastern US states, comes from the Mason-Dixon line, a borderline which separated the US in slave and free states.
WkkO4 TIL: T.G.I. Fridays restaurant opened in 1965 in New York and it started out as a singles bar.
v1754 TIL The actor who used to play Gaston at Disney World killed himself accidentally by attempting to shoot fireworks off of his head.
p75N TIL in 2004, an activist from The Yes Men falsely claiming to represent Dow Chemicals was interviewed by BBC, claiming Dow had agreed to a $12 billion settlement for victims of the 1984 Bhopal, India chemical disaster (in which 3,000 peopl died). Dow lost $2 billion in the ensuing stock selloff.
D16Qp TIL that in 1995 a Norwegian scientific rocket-launch caused Russia to panic believing it was a US nuclear attack with the 'nuclear briefcase' being delivered to Boris Yeltsin