› added 4 years ago

64

TIL that aluminium weighs more than concrete per volume (1m3)

Read more smithy.com

via reddit.com

YpXKA TIL that the woman who accused 14 y.o. Emmett Till of flirting with her admitted that she lied 62 years later. Till was brutally lynched by the woman’s husband and his cousin based on her accusation. Images of his mutilated body are credited with sparking the Civil Rights movement.
VMjD0 TIL: GB Glace (Unilever's heart ice cream company) has a different name in many different countries.
Eowo TIL a panel of 54 wine experts were given two glasses of the same white wine, one dyed with red coloring, and all described them as two different wines, one white and one red.
OGn91 TIL Australia has a 1-kilogram $10,000 gold coin that is legal tender; however, its current gold value is about 8.5 times its face value.
RWDl TIL Kuman Thong (golden young boy), is a dry roasted still-born baby covered in gold leaf and worshipped as an amulet in ancient Thailand. It is illegal now, but sometimes people still make them.