› added 8 years ago

1352

TIL the city of Melbourne gave email addresses to trees so locals could report problems, but they received thousands of love letters instead

Read more theatlantic.com

via reddit.com

DQB0g TIL Smokey Robinson's 1970 Motown classic "Tears of a Clown" was inspired by the 19th century Italian opera "Pagliacci"
DdaV TIL Over the past decade, the number of African American men killed on the streets of Oakland nearly matched the number who graduated from its high schools ready to attend a state university.
lOmK TIL that 90% of Mozilla’s revenue comes from a contract with Google to be Firefox’s default search engine
4Xp8R TIL popcorn became popular during the Great Depression because it was fairly inexpensive.
e0xAJ TIL humans dont actually have five senses, we have other senses like balance, heat, pain and the passage of time. Humans actually have at least 14 senses.