› added 1 month ago

9

TIL “Ped Xing” is not Chinese, but actually short for “Pedestrian Crossing”

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

ZaZR TIL that an angry crew member during the filming of “Titanic”, spiked their buffet with PCP, and that there were “people just rolling around”. The person who did it was never caught.
Oowwa TIL about the concept of distillery cats - cats who are employed by distilleries to get rid of mice
d8dJ8 TIL that Paul Cambon, the French ambassador in London from 1898-1920, didn't learn a word of English during his 22 year posting, and insisted during meetings that every utterance be translated into French, including easily recognized words such as ‘yes’.
ADaxl TIL that the unit of one mile comes from "a thousand paces" (mille passus)
E141o TIL the oldest living organism is called Pando and is 80,000 years old, it looks like a forest but is actually one tree covering over 100 acres and...its dying.