› added 5 years ago

833

TIL Forest fires are essential for continuation of giant California Sequoia trees: Seeds will break open during intense heat

Read more 150.parks.ca.gov

via reddit.com

Z8E4R TIL British General Charles O'Hara had the unfortunate "distinction" of surrendering not only to George Washington at Yorktown, but Napoleon Bonaparte at Toulon as well.
ADk7l TIL American's spend $6.232 Billion on speeding tickets per year
Xvmr TIL the Euro currency was designed featuring imagery of fictitious bridges to represent architectural stylings throughout time in Europe, also serving to not feature one country while discriminating others. The Netherlands then built the bridges anyways
9Ygj7 TIL There is no left brain and right brain divide. People are not divided on the left-brain and the right-brain thinkers: those who are logical and analytical vs. those who are intuitive and creative. Scientific research has shown that the popular left brain / right brain story doesn't hold water.
Ypy9A TIL: Up until the 1950's, NYC had an abundance of wild marijuana plants, with some in Brooklyn growing as high as seven feet tall. They were all eventually eradicated by the Department of Sanitation, destroying nearly 41,000 pounds of wild weed.