› added 2 years ago

63

TIL there's a type of bezoar (gastrointestinal stone) that develops from eating partially unripe persimmons and one of the cures for this is Coca-Cola, which is enough to completely dissolve the bezoar on its own in around half of the cases

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

5VlaR TIL That the song 'Valerie' by Steve Winwood made the Billboard Top 100 twice...five years apart. First on Winwood's album 'Talking Back to the Night' and then a remixed version from his compilation album 'Chronicles'. It charted at 70 and 9 respecitvely.
aD0M TIL the Original Ronald McDonald was fired for being overweight
4kVXJ TIL there are nearly 100 statues of animals in London, compared to 50 statues of women.
LYLm TIL There was a 9 year gap between Jeffrey Dahmer’s first and second murders.
yQPV TIL Jacklyn H. Lucas, who joined the Marines when he was 14, stormed Iwo Jima when he was 17, and is one of the few people in the world to have fallen on not one, but two grenades to save comrades, and survive.