› added 3 years ago

175

TIL potatoes are native to South America. Potatoes were introduced to the rest of the world only in the last 500 years.

Read more beatlyzer.com

via beatlyzer.com

5Ya6Q TIL the Kremlin run a British free-to-air TV channel as a “soft power” strategy to undermine the UK government.
ADWkx TIL the French Foreign Minister was shot dead in 1934 when a revolutionary opened fire. It wasn't revealed until 1974 that the revolutionary missed and the Minister was really killed by a police officer aiming for the revolutionary.
vPGv4 TIL about Pierre Billotte, commander of the Eure. He, along with his crew, defeated 13 tanks and two enemy guns in a single day. The Eure was hit 140 times by tank and weapons fire
glQ4 TIL the Tsar bomba was so powerful it broke window panes 560 miles away, equivalent to the approx. distance from London to Berlin or Manhattan to Charlotte, NC.
JYQvm TIL there is a formula that can determine the correct amount of caffeine needed for optimal performance, based on factors like amount of sleep.