› added 5 years ago

125

TIL the world's population is expected to hit 9.7 billion in 2050, meaning an increase of 2 billion people in the next 30 years.

Read more un.org

via reddit.com

dD0Rd TiL the Brussel Sprouts have been systematically bred to be less bitter and taste better since the 90s
A6gn TIL around Halloween in 2012, Hurricane Sandy upended a giant oak tree in New Haven. In the roots of the tree were several skeletons from the 18th century and a forgotten 100-year-old time capsule.
R5L6Q TIL bobcats can breed with lynxes to produce blynxes
vPywD TIL Astronomer Pierre Janssen was he first to regularly use photographs to study the Sun. In 1903 he published his great "Atlas de photographies solaires", containing more than 6,000 solar pictures
mGpy TIL the average price of a NES game in 1990 was $50. Equivalent to about $90 in 2015.