› added 1 year ago

65

TIL almost every country or culture has their own variation of Meatloaf

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

Z8EnQ TIL During the Cold War, Chairman Mao brought up the idea China could give the US 10 million of its female citizens as a gift. Henry Kissinger replied by calling the idea a "novel proposition."
5Vda9 TIL that Stuart Anders, the inventor of the slap bracelet, donated 200 of his original bracelets called the "Slap Wrap" to Florida elementary school students after they were given a Chinese knockoff brand which had inappropriate pictures printed on the metal beneath the bracelets' cloth wrapping.
yQK68 TIL: Scientists found that it actually takes about 2,500 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.
VM4nQ TIL that baby owls sleep face down because their heads are too heavy.
YVVx TIL Nixon’s family was poor. They couldn’t afford lavish vacations. And there weren’t that many national parks. So he corrected that by creating the EPA.