› added 9 years ago

263

TIL the ‘ghost orchid’ has no leaves or stem, and is simply a system of roots when it is not flowering.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

ANle4 TIL: Sperm whales’ clicks are powerful enough to penetrate and vibrate your entire body to death.
41o5 TIL of a type of food fraud where honey is cut with cheaper sugars and syrups and then sold as pure honey. This is called ‘Honey Laundering’.
6w0X TIL King Solomon had a net worth around $2.1 trillion dollars today. He received 25 tons of gold yearly (one ounce of gold costs $1320 today, a ton is 32,000 ounces.) He ruled for 40 years.
oR7aR TIL mixed-breed dogs live an average of 14 years while purebreds live only an average of almost 10 years.
ppmA TIL that there exists a formally recognized type of deception where true statements are used to create a false impression, called “paltering”