› added 1 year ago

36

TIL that the inventor of the Pringles can, Fred Baur, requested to be buried in one. Part of his ashes were indeed buried in a Pringles can.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

xVXpk TIL the bird, the Common Swift, can stay in the air for up to 10 months without landing. They can even sleep and mate while flying.
0wXNy TIL a monk had erased and written over a book by Archimedes describing the foundations for calculus, centuries before Leibniz and Newton.
VOV0 TIL US sailors in WWII mixed a drink called “Torpedo Juice,” an alcoholic beverage containing pineapple juice and 180-proof alcohol used as fuel in torpedo motors
8eBEZ TIL almost 2/3 (61%) of WW2 American servicemen were draftees instead of volunteers
rN9vx TIL Soccer legend Diego Maradona used a fake penis to pass drug tests at the height of his cocaine use. The phoney phallus was stolen from a Buenos Aires museum in 2003 and has never been recovered.