› added 5 years ago

72

TIL that the current premier of Cambodia (Lord Prime Minister, Supreme Military Commander Hun Sen) is a former member of the Khmer Rouge.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

RK4 TIL that many supermarket oranges have their peels dyed orange–not all oranges’ orange peels turn orange by maturity. Their peels are green despite being ripe, so the FDA allows adding color to prevent negative effects on sales.
loNlr TIL about Project Loon which provides internet to devastated areas of the world via balloons in the Stratosphere.
ZjQa TIL the actors who played the parents in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off met on-set and later married each other
0dXrv TIL that every time you shuffle a deck of cards it’s most likely the first time the cards have EVER been in that order
X0AXQ TIL that in 1615 a party of Spanish whalers were left stranded in Iceland. The Spaniards stole a locals fish and in retaliation a group of Icelanders massacred the robbers. Due to this the sheriff declared all Spaniards were criminals. Only in 2015 after a memorial of the dead,the decree was revoked