Home
Random
Trending
Today
1
posts added
Search
› added
3 years ago
271
TIL blackcurrants are outlawed in most of the United States.
Read more
businessinsider.com
via
reddit.com
wYME
TIL German Chocolate Cake is named for its creator, Sam German, and in fact has nothing to do with Germany.
yQYPa
TIL that some spiders engage in oral sex
4X1QN
TIL To compose a picture of a black hole in 2019, 5 petabytes of data were used, which took half a ton of hard drives. Part of this data was physically moved by plane. This allowed a transfer of 14 gigabytes per second, which was faster than if data would be transferred through the internet.
Oo7YR
TIL Number 4 (四; accounting 肆; pinyin sì) is considered an unlucky number in Chinese because it is nearly homophonous to the word "death" (死 pinyin sǐ). Due to that, many numbered product lines skip the "4": e.g., Nokia cell phones (there is no series beginning with a 4), Palm PDAs, Canon PowerShot
DwDY
TIL old people smell is actually caused by a chemical, 2-nonenal, that old people secrete through their skin