› added 11 years ago

120

TIL the inventor of the chocolate chip cookie cashed in on its massive success and sold the recipe, but only sold it for a lifetime supply of chocolate

Read more web.mit.edu

via reddit.com

rLvd TIL of Unit 731, a covert Japanese research group that carried out human experimentation during WWII to study chemical and biological warfare. The are considered to be responsible for some of the worst war crimes in history for the tens of thousand who died during the experiments.
QNydM TIL that Canadian Pacific Freight Trains can be up to 2 miles (3.2km) long.
wod78 TIL that the sun is not big enough to become a black hole.
XGM6 TIL more than 900 American troops were alive at the end of the Korean War but were never released by the North Koreans. In 1996, as many as 15 of them might have still been alive.
kO6X1 TIL Venus Flytrap s only appear naturally on the coasts of NC, and SC; all within the 60 mile (100km) radius of Wilmington, NC