› added 9 years ago

117

TIL the first president of Zimbabwe was named President Banana

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

e0pxg The ocean produces at least 50 percent of the Earth’s oxygen, and strangely enough, whale poop is the fuel that helps keep our oceans alive. In this episode of Today I Learned, Asha de Vos tell us why we should all say thanks to whales and their poop.
DQnY TIL Steve Irwin’s last words: “Don’t worry, they usually don’t swim backwards”
VGWk TIL, Thomas Everett Blasingame was a Texas cowboy for seventy-three years. At ninety-one, he was still on the job at the JA Ranch south of Amarillo. Two days after Christmas in 1989, he dismounted his horse, Ruidosa, stretched out on the grass, folded his arms across his chest, and died.
01aR TIL the creator of Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie, based the idea of a character that would never grow up on his older brother who died the day before his 14th birthday, thus remaining a boy forever in his mother’s mind.
Brjlx TIL of the "cargo cult" belief, in which pre-industrial societies mimic western activities, such as the building of mock airstrips, and performing daily rituals such as dressing as parading soldiers, which they believe will cause spiritual agents to deliver highly desired cargo such as in WW2 arenas