› added 12 years ago

124

TIL Cherry Coke is banned in Canada.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

PYm6E TIL that the name Vermont comes from the French "verd mont" meaning green mountain.
MewDB TIL of the "compute stick", a fully fledged computer that is plugged into a monitor like a streaming device.
RQE7 TIL that in the 1960’s, for fear of having their submarine communication cables cut by the Soviets, the US military sent 480,000,000 copper needles into space to secure their communications infrastructure. The needles acted as a mirror for radio waves, enabling communication between distant sites.
0wWGR TIL If a single ecoli bacterium had limitless resources and space, within 48 hours it would have split enough times into a colony with a mass 4000x that of the Earth
YaOd TIL there is an Orthodox Jewish prayer men say in the morning thanking god for not making them a woman.