› added 2 months ago

37

TIL the Michelin Man is named Bibendum, or Bib for short. He even has a category for value-for-money restaurants in MICHELIN's guidebooks—the Bib Gourmand—named after him.

Read more guide.michelin.com

via reddit.com

pYAKN TIL author Maya Angelou was a friend of Martin Luther King Jr. King was assassinated on her 40th birthday. For many years after she didn't celebrate her birthday only marking the occasion by reaching out to King's widow.
VBLRG TIL unassisted marathon swims can be relays with varied numbers of participants
nWVBG TIL Poland’s first PM was a concert pianist
mjLp TIL that after receiving 13 liters of blood at age 13, a man named James Harrison pledged to donate blood once he turned 18. It was discovered that his blood contained a rare antigen which cured Rhesus disease. He has donated blood a record 1,000 times and saved 2,000,000 lives.
ryvw TIL that scientists were able to transplant eye primordia (bits of flesh that eventually grow into eyes) from one tadpole’s head to another’s posterior. Many of the new eyes formed neural pathways to the spine - bypassing the brain altogether - and gave the tadpoles sight.