› added 12 years ago

153

TIL the mold in blue cheese is Penicillium

Read more wikipedia.org

via bit.ly

PYVDG TIL that u means you in text (who knew??!)
x6oVg TIL somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean are the Disappointment Islands. Named by John Byron in 1765, because he found the natives to be hostile towads him.
P1AjZ TIL that the Peshtigo, Wisconsin Wilfire claimed more than 1500 lives making it the deadliest fire in American history, but most people haven’t heard about it because it went largely unreported due to the Great Fire of Chicago taking place on the exact same night, October 8th, 1871
Zp5vp TIL A tablespoon of our sun weighs about 5 pounds. A tablespoon of Neutron Star (a massive star 10x larger than our sun that has run out of fuel, collapsed, exploded, and collapsed some more) would weigh 1 billion tons- the weight of Mount Everest.
rNd0x TIL There are wild wallaby 'mobs' living in Hawaii, France, England, Scotland, on the Isle of Man, and off the coast of Ireland.