› added 4 years ago

86

TIL Cannabis (hemps or weed) is one of the closest living relatives to roses, both being in the Rosales clade

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

NXGmN TIL Steve Comisar sold "solar powered clothes dryers" in national magazines for $49.99 and subsequently sent customers a clothesline.
xYJ0 TIL that the special seaweed that tastes like Bacon when fried or smoked, Dulse, is already available in some stores in the smoked variety
GA7nj TIL about the Mariko Aoki phenomenon - also known as “book bowels” or “library poops”
PaJ TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger did not accept his California governor’s salary of $175,000 per year because of his already substantial wealth from his acting career.
R5bLQ TIL A bear became the first living being to survive a supersonic ejection