› added 4 years ago

95

TIL dates are not a "dried fruit". The brown and crinkly appearance is actually what they look like "fresh" when ripe on the tree.

Read more eatingbirdfood.com

via reddit.com

v1wm7 TIL When a billionaire resident dies, states reap an average $165 million windfall from estate taxes
4dNN TIL Mario wears a hat because programmers found it difficult to create the hair movement that would occur when the character jumped.
Kpj9 TIL the bird Americans call a “turkey” is called an India in Turkey, and a Peru in Portugese.
OoNYL TIL of the 1976 Chowchilla bus kidnapping. Three men kidnapped 26 kids + their bus driver + forced them into an underground bunker. They never gave their $5 millions random note to the police; they took a nap after the crime + when they woke up the victims had already escaped + returned home safely.
kORYe TIL in 1963 Robert Kearns invented the intermittent windshield wiper, presented it to Ford Motor Co. and was hired. Ford fired him and took his technology. He sued Ford for patent infringement and after 12 yrs. of litigation, at times without a lawyer, the court awarded Kearns 10.3 M dollars.