› added 10 years ago

379

TIL that ketchup doesn’t have to be made with tomatoes, and it’s only relatively recently that people think of ketchup as synonymous with tomato ketchup.

Read more saveur.com

via reddit.com

5Ypo8 TIL april fool started when france switched from julian to gregorian calendar , and people who were slow to recognize January 1 as new year celebrated April 1 as new year became the day of jokes and swindle.
vA8D TIL that the ignition on all Porsches is located on the left side of the wheel. This is because back when Porsche was primarily a racing team, the drive could save a fraction of a second by starting the car with his left hand, while simultaneously switching the car into gear with his right hand.
XEM9D TIL that suicide by volcano is an actual thing with more than 1200 people killing themselves in a single volcano untill a barrier was erected
wLDPo TIL that da Vinci painted 2 Mona Lisas. The older one was hidden in a vault until 2012.
M7GaB TIL in 2018, Scientists identified the earliest known animal in the geological record as a 558-million-year-old oval-shaped creature known as Dickinsonia that may have borne a superficial resemblance to a segmented jellyfish.