› added 29 minutes ago

TIL “the average person consumes roughly 20 lbs of (onions) per year”

Read more webmd.com

via reddit.com

grMY9 TIL Brazilians don't believe that the Wright brothers invented the airplane. Instead, they believe that Brazilian aviation pioneer, Alberto Santos-Dumond, was the true inventor.
a89MN TIL that the Amazon River drains about 61 million gallons (230 million liters) of water into the ocean per second. This is greater than that of the world's next seven largest rivers combined and accounts for 20% of total river water discharge worldwide.
MeNkK TIL that landlocked country of Mongolia maintains a Navy which consists of 1 tugboat and 7 sailors, 6 of whom do not know how to swim.The boat is placed in Mongolia's largest lake & after privatization of the Navy by the government it now supplements its income by hauling freight and tourists around
M7G4m TIL that rural Americans used barbed wire to connect their telephones to switchboards since there were no telephone lines.
awpr9 TIL that fake oil paintings can be detected because of nuclear bombs detonated in 1945 because of the fact that isotopes such as strontium-90 and cesium-137 that can be found in oil did not exist in nature previously. If a picture contains these isotopes, it is certainly painted after year 1945