› added 2 years ago

184

TIL Most “recycled” plastic ends up in landfills.

Read more npr.org

via reddit.com

yQK0p TIL 36 men volunteered to starve for a year in an experiment, known as the Minnesota Starvation Experiment, to study the psychological and physiological effects of starvation
aE1y TIL that Dalmatians are not born with their spots, but instead, are born pure white. Their first spots start to develop about 3 weeks after birth, with additional spots continuing to form throughout their lives.
xV6pg TIL Russians were making color photos over 100 years ago.
4XX4w TIL Terry Gross from NPR's Fresh Air does all her interviews in a dark room and they are not face to face , or often even in the same state
P1eDe TIL that Charlotte Hughes celebrated her 110th birthday by flying on Concorde - the oldest person to fly on a commercial aircraft. When the Wright Flyer first flew in 1903, she was 26 years old.