› added 5 years ago

259

TIL In their 30 years together, Paul and Linda McCartney spent only one night apart

Read more heraldscotland.com

via reddit.com

6EoDX TIL That the guy who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan has been freed from psychiatric care since mid-2016 (John Hinckley Jr.)
eLxb TIL Scientists disagree about whether plants can think, feel, and communicate. They mostly agree about the facts, so the disagreement is about what to call it: “communicate” versus “signal”. Some say plants are intelligent, and they have sufficient memory to “train” them to change their “behavior”.
Aw6o TIL that the Largest Nuclear Power Plant in the world is in Ontario, Canada and that their security force has won the U.S. National SWAT Championship four times.
QJX6 TIL that after Johnny Carson joked on air about an imaginary toilet paper shortage, Americans began hoarding toilet paper, “causing a real shortage that lasted for weeks” (3rd paragraph)
O7lg TIL that NASA hires a man to sniff everything that they send to space. If he doesn’t like the smell, it doesn’t go to space.