› added 4 years ago

193

TIL Plastic wrap will help slow bananas down from ripening

Read more insider.com

via reddit.com

M7NDB TIL that the USA in 1856 enacted a law that allowed any USA citizen to take over an island if the island was full of bird shit....and unoccupied.
oBMWY TIL practically all male nudity in Hollywood uses prosthetic penises
75Vr TIL Vernors is actually the oldest soda still being sold. It predates Dr. Pepper by 19 years.
697W7 TIL that after Zaire, now known as DR Congo, lost all their matches at the 1974 FIFA World Cup, the players were forbidden to leave their home country, so that they couldn't play for European clubs with the offers that came in after the World Cup
yOme TIL during Prohibition, the U.S. government poisoned alcohol, killing as many as 10,000 people