› added 7 years ago

104

TIL canned food excavated from the steamboat Bertrand was still safe to eat 110 years after it sank.

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

OGDJa TIL that both Al Pacino and Robert De Niro are two of the oldest fathers on record, fathering children at the ages of 83 and 79 respectively.
KOll6 TIL of Benjamin Lay, a radical abolitionist Quaker from 19th c. PA. He lived in a cave, ate only vegetables & fruit, & threatened slave-owning Quaker's with God's wrath. Also he was a hunchback dwarf.
5ZwD TIL that the London Underground has evolved its own subspecies of mosquito.
wRkE TIL A breastfeeding son “spotted cancer” in mother by refusing to feed from breast with cyst.
R7Nxl TIL telling ghost stories around a fire was originally a Christmas Eve tradition. Beginning with Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" it was an annual tradition throughout the Victorian Era and only changed when Halloween became popular in the 1920s.