› added 2 months ago

60

TIL Because their reputation is at stake, mayors of Munich receive coaching by a 83 year old brewer before tapping the first barrel at Oktoberfest.

Read more sueddeutsche.de

via reddit.com

b5wE TIL the Amazon Rainforest loses about 22,000 tons of the phosphorus in its soil due to floods every year. The Amazon remains so fertile because the dust of a dried up lake in the Sahara Desert traveling through the atmsophere feeds the Amazon’s plants the phosphorus it lost.
9wAQm TIL In the sport of cricket, a "five-wicket haul" or a "five-for" is called a "Michelle" in honor of Michelle Pfeiffer.
byWQ TIL that the 10 richest women in the world all inherited their wealth from either their father or late husband.
nepAo TIL Mohandas Gandhi is one of the strongest symbols of non-violence in the 20th century. It is widely held – in retrospect – that the Indian national leader should have been the very man to be selected for the Nobel Peace Prize. He was nominated several times, but was never awarded the prize.
e0Nmn TIL: Kokomo isn’t a real place.