› added 7 years ago

69

TIL that the S.S. Minnow, the castaway’s ship in the Gilligan’s Island TV show, was named after FCC chairman Newton Minow, who called television a “vast wasteland.”

Read more wikipedia.org

via ift.tt

Z8OWp TIL that the Nazis believed strongly in the myth of Atlantis. Under the guidance of Heinrich Himmler, archeologists spread the idea that Germans were descended from a superior race of Antlanteans.
jkWE TIL there is actually a pepper hotter than the Ghost Chili. The new record holder is called the Carolina Reaper, and rates an average of 1,569,300 Scoville units.
EYmd TIL broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, and cabbage all were created by humans from a single plant, wild kale.
wLGbo TIL In 1963, Heineken created a beer bottle that could also function as a brick to build houses in impoverished countries after he took a trip to the island of Curacao in the Caribbean Sea and discovered that he could barely walk 15 feet on the beach without stepping on a littered Heineken bottle.
5ynn TIL on April Fools’ Day 1957 the BBC current-affairs programme Panorama, purportedly showed a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from the family “spaghetti tree”. Spaghetti was so little-known that many Britons contacted the BBC for advice on growing their own trees.